I Feel Alright

Earle, Steve

Genre: music4me > Rock > Rock

Format: CD Album

Released: Tue 5 Mar 1996

Catalogue Number: WB46201.2

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Description:
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.
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.

Details:

Distributor: Universal Music
Discs: 1
Release Year: 1996
Running Time: 39 minutes
Running Time: 40 minutes

Track Listing:

1.	Feel Alright
2.	Hard-Core Troubadour
3.	More Than I Can Do
4.	Hurtin' Me, Hurtin' You
5.	Now She's Gone
6.	Poor Boy
7.	Valentine's Day
8.	Unrepentant
9.	CCKMP
10.	Billy and Bonnie
11.	South Nashville Blues
12.	You're Still Standin' There

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