I Feel Alright
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I Feel Alright is a studio album
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by Steve Earle
Steve Earle
Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and Texas Country as well as his political views. He is also a producer, author, a political activist, and an actor, and has written and directed a play....

. The album was released on March 5, 1996.

Track listing

All songs written by Steve Earle
  1. "Feel Alright" — 3:04
  2. "Hard-Core Troubadour" — 2:41
  3. "More Than I Can Do" — 2:37
  4. "Hurtin' Me, Hurtin' You" — 3:21
  5. "Now She's Gone" — 2:48
  6. "Poor Boy" — 2:55
  7. "Valentine's Day" — 2:59
  8. "The Unrepentant" — 4:31
  9. "CCKMP" — 4:30
  10. "Billy and Bonnie" — 3:39
  11. "South Nashville Blues" — 3:39
  12. "You're Still Standin' There" — 3:24

Musicians

  • Steve Earle — guitars, harmonica & vocals
  • Guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    s: Richard Bennett
    Richard Bennett (guitarist)
    Richard Bennett is a touring sideman, session veteran, and record producer. As a touring sideman, he performed with Neil Diamond for 17 years, and Mark Knopfler since 1994. As a session player, he has worked with artists ranging from Billy Joel and Barbra Streisand to Rodney Crowell and Vince Gill...

    , Ray Kennedy
    Ray Kennedy (country singer)
    Ray Kennedy is an American country music artist. He has recorded three studio albums: one on Columbia Records and two on Atlantic Records...

  • Bass
    Bass (instrument)
    Bass describes musical instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range. They belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles...

    : Kelly Looney, Garry Tallent
    Garry Tallent
    Garry Wayne Tallent , sometimes billed as Garry W. Tallent, is an American musician and record producer, best known for being the longtime bass player in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band....

    , Roy Huskey, Jr.
    Roy Huskey, Jr.
    Roy Milton Huskey was a prominent American upright bass player in country music from Nashville, Tennessee. Huskey performed alongside musicians such as Chet Atkins, Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash, Vince Gill, George Jones, Steve Earle, Doc Watson and many others...

    , Ric Kipp
  • Drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    : Custer, Greg Morrow
  • Organ: Ken Moore
  • Harmonium
    Harmonium
    A harmonium is a free-standing keyboard instrument similar to a reed organ. Sound is produced by air being blown through sets of free reeds, resulting in a sound similar to that of an accordion...

    : Richard Bennett
  • Percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

    : Custer, Richard Bennett, Greg Morrow, Dub Cornett
  • Vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

    : Custer & Logan, The Fairfield Four
    The Fairfield Four
    The Fairfield Four is a gospel group that has existed for over 80 years. They started as a trio in Nashville, Tennessee's Fairfield Baptist Church in 1921. They were designated as National Heritage Fellows in 1989 by the National Endowment for the Arts. The group won the 1998 Grammy for Best...

     (Musical director: Mark Prentice), Lucinda Williams
    Lucinda Williams
    Lucinda Williams is an American rock, folk, blues and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public. In 1988, she released her self-titled album,...

    , Ms. Williams' stunt double Siobhan Maher
  • Strings arranged and conducted by Kris Wilkerson
  • Violin
    Violin
    The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

    s: Carl Gordetzky, Pamela Sixfin, Richard Grosjean
  • Viola
    Viola
    The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...

    : Lee Larrison
  • Cello
    Cello
    The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

    : Robert Mason

Releases

year format label catalog #
1996 CD  Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records
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46201
1996 cassette
Compact Cassette
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Warner Bros. Records 46201
1996 CD Transatlantic 227

Charts

year chart peak
1996 The Billboard 200  106

Accolades

Organization/Publication Year Accolade Position Reference
Eye Weekly (Canada) 1996 "Albums of the year" 8
Guitar Player
Guitar Player
Guitar Player is a popular magazine for guitarists founded in 1967. It contains articles, interviews, reviews and lessons of an eclectic collection of artists, genres and products. It has been in print since the late 1960s and during the 1980s, under editor Tom Wheeler, the publication was...

(USA)
1997 "Best Country Guitar album" 3
Nashville Music Awards (USA) 1997 best rock album *
Spin
Spin (magazine)
Spin is a music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr.-History:In its early years, the magazine was noted for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on college-oriented rock music and on the ongoing emergence of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard...

(USA)
1999 "Top 90 Albums of the 90s" 75
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