Writing for Entertainment Weekly Alanna Nash gave I Feel Alright an "A" grade. She wrote, "If I Feel Alright doesn’t deliver the grit that has been Earle’s gift to rock and country, his roots-rock joie de vivre sends no apologies, only a healthy message for the ’90s: Don’t feel bad about feeling good."[ 2]
Organization/Publication
Year
Accolade
Position
Reference
Eye Weekly (Canada)1996
"Albums of the year"
8
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Guitar Player 1997
"Best Country Guitar album"
3
[ 9]
Nashville Music Awards (USA)1997
best rock album
*
[ 10]
Spin 1999
"Top 90 Albums of the 90s"
75
[ 11]
All tracks are written by Steve Earle
Title 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" 2:28 12. "You're Still Standin' There" 3:24 Total length: 38:57
Steve Earle — guitars, harmonica, vocals
Richard Bennett , Ray Kennedy - guitarKelly Looney, Garry Tallent , Roy Huskey, Jr. , Ric Kipp - bass
Kurt Custer, Greg Morrow - drums
Ken Moore - organ
Richard Bennett - harmonium
Lucinda Williams - vocals on "You're Still Standin' There"Kurt Custer, Richard Bennett, Greg Morrow, Dub Cornett - percussion
Custer & Logan, The Fairfield Four (musical director: Mark Prentice), Lucinda Williams, Ms. Williams' stunt double Siobhan Maher - vocals
Kris Wilkerson - string arrangement and conductor
Carl Gordetzky, Pamela Sixfin, Richard Grosjean - violin
Lee Larrison - viola
Robert Mason - cello Ray Kennedy and Richard Bennett (tracks: 1, 5, 8 to 12), Richard Dodd (tracks: 2 to 4, 6 and 7)
^ a b c Kurt Wolf, Review: I Feel Alright " , Allmusic
^ a b c Nash, Alanna (1996-03-08). "I Feel Alright" . Entertainment Weekly ^ Christgau, Robert (2000-10-15). Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s Macmillan Publishing . p. 92. ISBN 9780312245603 ^ Appleford, Steve (1996-03-09). "Album Reviews: Earle's Back With New Ease, Naturalness on 'Alright' . Los Angeles Times ISSN 0458-3035 . Retrieved 2017-12-25 . ^ Brackett, Nathan ; Hoard, Christian David (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide Simon and Schuster . p. 268 . ISBN 9780743201698 ^ McLeese, Don (1998-02-02). "Steve Earle: I Feel Alright" . Rolling Stone the original on 2007-04-01. Retrieved 2018-05-17 . ^ Aaron, Charles (April 1996). "Steve Earle: I Feel Alright" . Spin SPIN Media LLC . p. 105. Retrieved 2018-07-26 .^ Eye Weekly (Canadian cross-country critics poll), 1996^ "27th Annual Guitar Player Readers Poll", Guitar Player 31:2 , February 1997, p. 40-41 (tie for 3rd place w/ Dwight Yoakam's Gone Junior Brown 's Semi Crazy , and Steve Wariner 's No More Mr. Nice Guy
^ Deborah Evans Price, "Nashville Awards Celebrate More Than Just Country", Billboard 109:8 , February 22, 1997, p. 26,28
^ "Spin's Top 90 Albums of the 90's"
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