| Product Summary | | Label: Wea/warner Bros. | | UPC: 00093624620129 | | Release Date: 3/5/1996 | | Buy.com Sku: 60143969 | | Item#: MSL6HK | Format:  CD |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Steve Earle (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Custer (vocals, drums, percussion); Lucinda Williams, The Fairfield Four, Logan (vocals); Kris Wilkerson (conductor, arranger); Richard Bennett (guitar, harmonium, percussion); Ray Kennedy (guitar); Carl Gorodetzky, Pamela Sixfin, Richard Grosjean (violin); Lee Larrison (viola); Robert Mason (cello); Ken Moore (organ); Kelley Looney, Garry W. Tallent, Roy Huskey, Jr., Ric Kipp (bass); Greg Morrow (drums, percussion); Rick Schell (drums); Dub Cornett (percussion). | | Producers: Ray Kennedy, Richard Bennett, Richard Dodd. | | Engineers: Ray Kennedy, Peter Coleman, Richard Dodd. | | Recorded at Room & Board and Treasure Isle, Nashville, Tennessee. Includes liner notes by Steve Earle. | | Personnel: Steve Earle (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Custer (vocals, drums, percussion); Logan, Lucinda Williams, The Fairfield Four (vocals); Richard Bennett (guitar, harmonica, harmonium, percussion); Ray Kennedy (guitar); Richard Grosjean, Carl Gorodetzky, Pamela Sixfin (violin); Lee Larrison (viola); Robert Mason (cello); Ken Moore (organ); Roy M. "Junior" Husky, Garry Tallent, Ric Kipp, Kelly Looney (bass guitar); Greg Morrow (drums, percussion); Rick Schell (drums); Dub Cornett (percussion). | | Audio Mixers: Ray Kennedy; Richard Dodd. | | Recording information: Room & Board, Nashville, TN; Treasure Isle Studios, Nashville, TN. | | Photographers: Nancy Lee Andrews; Lee Andrews; Ray Kennedy. | | Unknown Contributor Role: Siobhan Maher. | | Arranger: Kris Wilkinson String Section. | | I FEEL ALRIGHT is country-rocker Steve Earle's first album of new material following a well-documented five-year residency on the wrong side of the Nashville tracks. Like TRAIN A COMIN', the acoustic set of folk and pop covers with which he made his quiet return a year earlier, this full-band record offers no apologies. It does offer a rocking reclamation of all the blues, folk and country Springsteenisms and Dylanisms that made Earle's return worth waiting for. | | One of its highlights is a searing, acoustic blues number, "CCKMP," on which Earle declares himself free of most of his former demons. The title stands for "cocaine cannot kill my pain"; the incredibly dark punch line dryly notes that heroin still can. Earle's voice is a blurry twang in which all those demons seem to have left a residue. When on the rollicking opening cut he announces that, "I've been to hell and now I'm back again/I feel alright," you know he means it, but you don't know if he's strong enough to hold on. Which, ironically, is the source of I FEEL ALRIGHT's power. These are songs that seek, in folk and rock and blues, the kind of redemption that life itself can't always offer. |
Musical Guests | | Lucinda Williams | | The Fairfield Four | | Ray Kennedy |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 02/20/1996 | | Original Release Date : 1996 | | Catalog ID : 46201 | | Label : Warner Bros. Records (Record Label) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 40m : 8s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00093624620129 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (3/7/96, p.47)
- 4 Stars (out of 5)
- "...Though much of the album offers a tour of one man's hell--with Earle as a roadhouse Dante--the songwriter's creative resurgence ultimately supplies his redemption..."Spin (9/99, p.158)
- Ranked #75 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s." Spin (4/96, p.105)
- 9 (out of 10)
- "...A cautionary threat, I FEEL ALRIGHT gives grief to anybody who doesn't acknowledge life's tragic ambiguity--defeat always shadows victory, sadness always mirrors happiness....He's a passionately volatile SOB and there's a hint of menace in almost every lyric he gets near, no matter how damp with sentiment..." Entertainment Weekly (3/8/96, p.64)
- "...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." - Rating: A Alternative Press (3/01, p.104)
- Included in A.P.'s "10 Essential Alt-Country Albums" - "...Earle comes across as a fork-tongued renegade, constantly defiant." Musician (4/96, p.84)
- "...there's a grim undercurrent to Earle's patented bad-boy drawl as he swaggers through these 12 dour Canterbury tales....But Earle...still has a fluid way with a pop-twanging hook that slaps most of his material across..." Village Voice (2/25/97)
- Ranked #6 in the Village Voice's 1996 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll. |
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