title: It's Alright (Chris Stamey album)
text: # It's Alright (Chris Stamey album)
  
  It's Alright is an album by the American musician Chris Stamey, released in 1987. Stamey supported it with a North American tour that included Alex Chilton on keyboards. It's Alright was expected to be somewhat of a mainstream success; it did not perform as well as envisioned, and Stamey was dropped from A&M Records two years after its release.
  
  ## Production
  
  "The Seduction" was inspired by Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Stamey played lead guitar on the album; Richard Lloyd and Mitch Easter played rhythm guitar. Chilton and Marshall Crenshaw sang on It's Alright. Jane Scarpantoni played cello.
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | Chicago Sun-Times | |
  | Robert Christgau | B |
  | The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
  | Los Angeles Daily News | A |
  | MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | |
  | The Record | |
  | The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
  
  Trouser Press called It's Alright "an emotionally lucid pop-rock album." The Philadelphia Inquirer labeled it "an impressive and graceful solo pop-rock album that presents his gifts for songwriting and guitar-playing in full flower." The Los Angeles Daily News considered it "a near masterpiece," writing that "Stamey makes his way through the lost terrain covered by mid-'70s Memphis-based popsters Big Star."
  
  Robert Christgau wrote that "Stamey's new wave supersession is excessively conventional, subsuming his mad pop perfectionism and repressed inner turmoil in mere well-madeness." The Washington Post opined that "tracks such as 'It's Alright' and 'If You Hear My Voice' are elaborate studio chamber pieces in the spirit of the best of the late-'60s Beatles and Beach Boys." The Charlotte Observer determined that, "with a wispy voice, shimmering pop-rock melodies and lyrics full of irony and disillusionment, Stamey looks suspiciously at modern love."
  
  AllMusic deemed It's Alright "the most uncomplicated and genuinely poppy album of his career."
  
  