''Feelin' All Right'' is the tenth studio album and twelfth album overall by the
country rock
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band the
New Riders of the Purple Sage
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. Released in 1981, it was their only album on the
A&M Records
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label. Produced as a
vinyl LP
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, it has not been released in CD format.
''Feelin' All Right'' was the last studio album by the New Riders that featured both
John "Marmaduke" Dawson and
David Nelson as full-time band members (although Nelson made a guest appearance on 1992's ''
Midnight Moonlight''). The two had co-founded the band in 1969 with
Jerry Garcia
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of the
Grateful Dead
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. Also included in the lineup was longtime member
Buddy Cage
Buddy Cage (February 18, 1946 – February 5, 2020) was an American pedal steel guitarist, best known as a longtime member of the New Riders of the Purple Sage. on pedal steel guitar, along with guitarist
Allen Kemp and drummer
Patrick Shanahan. Kemp wrote or co-wrote seven of the ten songs on the album, his first as a member of NRPS.
''Feelin' All Right''
at the NRPS official website
Track listing
:''Side one:''
#"Night for Making Love" ( John Dawson, David Nelson, Allen Kemp) – 3:12
#"No Other Love" (Dawson, Kemp) – 3:02
#"The Way She Dances" (Dawson, Kemp) – 2:49
#"Tell Me" (Kemp) – 3:26
#"Fly Right" (Kemp) – 3:09
:''Side two:''
#"Crazy Little Girl" (Dawson, Kemp) – 3:20
#"Full Moon at Midnight" (Dawson, Kemp) – 3:20
#"Pakalolo Man" (Jack Miller) – 2:42
#"Day Dreamin' Girl" (M. O'Gara) – 2:56
#"Saralyn" (Dawson) – 2:50
Personnel
New Riders of the Purple Sage
* John Dawson – guitar, vocals
* David Nelson – guitar, vocals
*Buddy Cage
Buddy Cage (February 18, 1946 – February 5, 2020) was an American pedal steel guitarist, best known as a longtime member of the New Riders of the Purple Sage. – pedal steel guitar
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* Allen Kemp – guitar, vocals
* Patrick Shanahan – drums, vocals
Additional musicians
* Michael White – bass
*Andre Lewis – synthesizer
Production
*Chuck Mellone – producer
*Alex Kash – engineer
*Jim Tronge – assistant engineer
*Dave Curtin – assistant engineer
*Frank DeLuna – mastering
*Ed Caraeff
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He has art directed, photographed and designed more than 400 record album covers from 1967 to 1981 for ...
– photography, design
* Frank Fenter – executive supervision for Fast Forward Productions, Inc
*Recorded at the Record Plant
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, Sausalito, California
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Sausalito's ...
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New Riders of the Purple Sage albums
1981 albums
A&M Records albums