Terri Clark Album: “Terri Clark”

This is great music, and from a lady who sings from the heart. she is so down to earth and you can tell when you watch her video's these songs are from real life not just words on paper. That is what makes her singing so wonderful, and she has no shortage of heart. Keep up the great work. Love it .

The album is fun and country. A good freshman effort. A must for any Terri Clark fan. She impressed me with her country style and guitar playing. The album art is excellent too!!

Many excellent female singers have emerged from Canada including Diana Krall, Joni Mitchell, Shania Twain, Anne Murray - and Terri Clark. Terri will never be as famous as the others I've mentioned but her brand of country music is very enjoyable. Terri's music is essentially traditional but updated to appeal to a contemporary fan base. In this, she follows the example of singers such as George Strait and Alan Jackson, though Terri's style is all her own. The musicians on this album play drums, electric bass, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, steel guitar, Lap steel guitar, piano, fiddle, mandolin, tic tac bass and cowbell. All the songs are originals and most of them feature Terri as writer or co-writer. Tom Shapiro and Chris Waters also made significant songwriting contributions.

The album opens with a brilliant, upbeat song (Better things to do) in which Teri makes clear that she doesn't have time for a former lover. Terri sounds defiant but her list of better things to do is unconvincing, so it's up to the listener to decide if she really means it. The next song (If I were you) finds Terri advising another woman to stay true to her husband, explaining that the single life is not all that it's cracked up to be. Next comes a song (Catch 22) that all too many people will relate to - about not being able to win whatever you do.

Terri worries about her man being faithful (Is Fort Worth it), tells us about how life changes in adolescence (When boy meets girl), fantasises about a cowboy (Tying a heart to a tumbleweed), remembers poorer times when passion was strong (When we had it bad), tells a cautionary tale about a philanderer (Suddenly single) and tells a former lover that he's not welcome back (Flowers after the fact). Terri appears to contradict herself (The inside story) by missing a former lover but returns to the unfaithful man theme (Was there a girl on your boys' night out) before closing the album with a message to a former lover (Something you should've said).

So there are plenty of great songs here in an album that should satisfy all but the most die-hard traditional country fans.

Every single song on this CD is top-notch! Terri Clark has a strong, gorgeous voice - I could listen to this music for hours and not tire of it! Give her a try. This is, hands down, the best CD I own.

Terri Clark may not be the best singer out there of country music but I still think this debut album isn't to bad. Better things to do is really what you buy it for and a couple of other songs are pretty good the best stuff is at the beginning but let me tell you it can really give you a headache after a while especially if you have headphones on. Terri Clark in alot of her songs has alot of overly hard country twang and some of her songs are a little whiny where the words are extra long. Its not horrible but her next couple of albums got better but mostly all are Terri Clark material.