I'm Alright (Jo Dee Messina album)

I'm Alright
Studio album by Jo Dee Messina
Released	March 17, 1998 (1998-03-17)
Genre	Country
Length	36:08
Label	Curb
Producer	Byron Gallimore and Tim McGraw
Jo Dee Messina chronology
Jo Dee Messina (1996)Jo Dee Messina1996 I'm Alright (1998) Burn (2000)Burn2000

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I'm Alright is the second studio album released by American country music singer Jo Dee Messina. It was released in 1998. Her highest selling album to date, it has been certified 2× Platinum for U.S. sales of two million copies. The album produced the singles "I'm Alright", "Bye, Bye", and "Stand Beside Me" — all of which reached Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts — as well as a cover of Dottie West's "A Lesson in Leaving" (titled "Lesson in Leavin'") and "Because You Love Me". Respectively, these last two singles reached #2 and #8 on the country charts.

Track listing

1. "I'm Alright" (Phil Vassar) – 3:16
2. "Stand Beside Me" (Stephen Allen Davis) – 3:41
3. "Even God Must Get the Blues" (Dene Anton, John Scott Sherrill) – 3:52
4. "No Time for Tears" (Steven Dale Jones, Jo Dee Messina) – 3:26
5. "Lesson in Leavin" (Randy Goodrum, Brent Maher) – 3:39
6. "Bye, Bye" (Rory Michael Bourke, Vassar) – 3:19
7. "Silver Thunderbird" (Marc Cohn) – 4:09
8. "I Know a Heartache" (Charlie Black, Rory Bourke, Kerry Chater) – 3:29
9. "Because You Love Me" (Kostas, Sherrill) – 3:50
10. "Cover Me" (Trey Bruce, Robin Lee Bruce) – 3:27

Personnel

• Deborah Allen- background vocals
• Mike Brignardello- bass guitar
• Robin Lee Bruce- background vocals
• Pat Buchanan- electric guitar
• Larry Byrom- acoustic guitar
• Glen Duncan- fiddle, mandolin
• Paul Franklin- pedal steel guitar
• Ralph Friedrichsen- background vocals
• Byron Gallimore- electric guitar
• Sonny Garrish- pedal steel guitar
• Camillie Harrison- background vocals
• Dann Huff- electric guitar
• Jeff King- electric guitar
• Michael Landau- electric guitar
• Brent Mason- electric guitar
• Terry McMillan- percussion
• Jo Dee Messina- lead vocals, background vocals
• Steve Nathan- piano
• Kim Parent- background vocals
• Chris Rodriguez- background vocals
• Lonnie Wilson- drums
• Curtis Young- background vocals

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1998)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	5
U.S. Billboard 200	61
Canadian RPM Country Albums	5
Canadian RPM Top Albums	96

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
		US Country	US	CAN Country
1998	"Bye, Bye"	1	43	1
	"I'm Alright"	1	43	1
	"Stand Beside Me"	1	34	1
1999	"Lesson in Leavin'"	2	28	2
	"Because You Love Me"	8	53	11