Terri Clark

I'm Alright (Angelo/Larry Gottlies/Kim Richey)
Now That I Found You (J.D. Martin/Paul Begaud/Vanessa Corish)
Everytime I Cry (Bob Regan/Karen Staley)
That's How I Feel (Sunny Russ/Terri Clark/Stephony Smith)
You're Easy On The Eyes (Terri Clark/Tom Shapiro/Chris Waters)
Getting Even With The Blues (Terri Clark/Tom Shapiro/Chris Waters)
Till I Get There (Terri Clark/Tom Shapiro/Chris Waters)
Not Getting Over You (Terri Clark)
This Ole Heart (Tony Lane/David Lee)
Cure For The Common Heartache (Leslie Satcher/Larry Cordle)
Me Not Loving You (Bob DiPiero/Terri Clark/Chris Waters)
Unsung Heroes (David Tyson/Tina Arena/Dean McTaggert)

Produced By:  Keith Stegall
© 1998 Mercury Records, A Polygram Company

Emotional Girl (Rick Bowles, Terri Clark & Chris Waters)
Poor, Poor Pitiful Me (Warren Zevon)
Just The Same (Tom Shapiro, Terri Clark & Chris Waters)
Something In The Water (Tom Shapiro, Terri Clark & Chris Waters)
Neon Flame (Chuck Jones, Terri Clark & Chris Waters)
Any Woman (Tom Shapiro, Terri Clark & Chris Waters)
Twang Thang (Tom Shapiro, Terri Clark & Chris Waters)
You Do Or You Don't (Bob DiPiero & Karen Staley)
Keeper Of The Flame (Terri Clark)
Not What I Wanted To Hear (Tom Shapiro, Terri Clark & Chris Waters)
Hold Your Horses (Carl Jackson & Pam Gadd)

Produced By:  Keith Stegall, Chris Waters & Terri Clark
© 1996 Mercury Records, Inc.

Better Things To Do (Tom Shapiro, Terri Clark & Chris Waters)
If I Were You (Terri Clark)
Catch 22 (Bob Regan, Terri Clark & Chris Waters)
Is Fort Worth Worth It (Tom Shapiro & Chris Waters)
When Boy Meets Girl (Tom Shapiro, Terri Clark & Chris Waters)
Tyin' A Heart To A Tumbleweed (Terry Clayton, Terri Clark & Stan Lawrence)
When We Had It Bad (Tom Shapiro, Terri Clark & Chris Waters)
Suddenly Single (Tom Shapiro, Terri Clark & Chris Waters)
Flowers After The Fact (Tom Shapiro, Terri Clark & Chris Waters)
The Inside Story (Terry Clayton & Terri Clark)
Was There A Girl On Your Boys' Night Out (Terry Clayton, Terri Clark & Stan Lawrence)
Something You Should've Said (Chris Waters & Terri Clark)

Produced By:  Keith Stegall & Chris Waters
© 1995 Polygram Records, Inc.

Terri Comes Home

By ANIKA VAN WYK Calgary Sun


Terri Clark was named student most likely to succeed by her fellow high school graduates, and yesterday she returned home to prove they were right.
 
Medicine Hat honored Clark with a key to the city, a park named in her honor as well as a tribute and barbecue.
 
"I'm not worthy," joked the star, who was obviously extremely touched by all the honors.
 
"If you don't remember where you come from, you won't know where you're going."
 
Clark, who attended elementary school in Calgary before relocating to Medicine Hat as a young teen, said she has been influenced by being an Albertan.
 
"People often tell me I'm so down to earth, and in a large part it's because of my upbringing here," Clark said.
 
And as for the influences on her music: "Being from the Prairies and Medicine Hat has kept my music sincere and honest."
 
Locals had the same impression of Clark.
 
"Terri was such a bubbly girl and she hasn't changed," said Gladys Eresman, who lived across the alley from the Clarks.
 
"The guitar was always going," added Eresman. Clark's sister Tina, 23, agrees: "I used to say: `Mom I'm trying to get to sleep -- can you please get Terri to stop playing?' "
 
George Strait, whom Clark toured with, sent a telegram wishing Clark all the best.
 
Shauna Kohls, a classical pianist and school chum of Clark's, also praised her friend and her dedication to her dream.
 
"(Succeeding) was all she talked about and you had to believe her because she's so magnetic," said Kohl.
 
Bill Wahl, Clark's high school music teacher, wasn't so sure about her chances for stardom.
 
"You never really know, but I used to like our talks after school -- she used to hang out in the band room," recalls Wahl, who has taught at Crescent Heights high school in Medicine Hat for 27 years.
 
The day wasn't all take for Clark.
 
She donated the proceeds of the day and a concert last night in Medicine Hat to local charities.
 
The Woman's Shelter sold all 500 of its Terri Clark Homecoming T-shirts.
 
Clark also gave Mayor Ted Grimm one of her platinum albums -- and presented Wahl with some cymbals to go with the drum kit she donated when she visited the school earlier this year and realised the students were playing on the same drums she did.
 
Topping off the day was a sold-out Arena crowd of about 4,500, who welcomed Clark by chanting her name to lure her onto the stage.
 
She threw her hat into the crowd during the encore, causing two men to go into the pushing stage of a fight -- thankfully, security staff stepped in before any damage could be done.
 
"Today really touched me deeply," said the pumped Clark, who did all her hits including Better Things To Do.
 
But in Medicine Hat last night, there was definitely nothing better to do than attend Clark's hot show.



Terri Clark is the Nashville Cinderella who went to the ball in cowgirl boots instead of glass slippers.

"I honestly do feel like I'm in some kind of fairytale," says the gold-selling sensation who galloped to fame in Wranglers, a t-shirt and a Stetson. "I feel like I'm living a dream. Everything I've ever dreamed about, ever since I was a little girl in Medicine Hat, Alberta, has come true this year."

Terri Clark, her debut album, has gone gold and the first single, "Better Things To Do," became a Top 3 country smash. Last summer she was crowned Female Star of Tomorrow at the fan-voted TNN/Music City News Country Awar,ds. The Country Music Association nominated her for its prestigious Horizon Award. Billboard magazine named her the Top New Female Country Artist of 1995. The Canadian Country Music Association honored her with three awards - Album of the Year, Song of the Year and its Vista award for the rising star of 1996.

Now she throws her speeding career into overdrive with the release of her second album, Just The Same.

Despite its title, Just The Same is anything but. Compared to her star-making debut, this collection is a revelation. Clark is singing with astounding conviction, attacking rockers with far more confidence than she displayed before, interpreting lyrics with tremendous subtlety and investing ballads with an array of honky-tonk moans, cries and slurs that confirm her status as one of the few genuinely "country" female vocalists recording today. In short, the lady has a mini-masterpiece on her hands.

From the roaring energy of "Emotional Girl" to the trembling emotion of "Keeper Of The Flame," this is an album by a country stylist in full command of her gifts. The bent-note phrasing of the shuffle, "Neon Flame," her delightful drawl on "Twang Thang," the heart-in-the-throat soaring in "Just The Same" and the wailing treatment she gives "Hold Your Horses" are the hallmarks of a singer who has progressed in giant leaps during her first year of stardom.

Her revival of the countty-rock classic "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" is packed with all the spunk and feisty charm she's famous for. You can almost see couples gliding and sliding across the dance floor when Terri scampers through "You Do Or You Don't." She rides atop a swampy, snaky guitar groove in "Something In The Water" and pulls off the trick of marrying a "down" lyric to an uptempo melody on "Not What I Wanted To Hear." And when she pours hurt, resilience, pain and strength as molten emotions into "Any Woman," you know you're in the presence of vocal greatness.

As before, Terri Clark struts her stuff as a first-class songwriter, too. She wrote or co- wrote all but three of the tunes on Just The Same. They demonstrate that she would have easily risen to' Music Row'+highest peaks as a composer even if she had never become a performer. Few of her "young country" peers in Nashville bring such an arsenal of talent to a project.

"I'm pretty excited- about this," she confesses.-"I just feel like this album is so much better in every way."

"I still think I've got a lot of growing to do; it's like I'm learning every day. The big lesson is, 'Be yourself. Take country musioand make it your own.' I'm not gonna get up on any soap box and preach about where country music is going, but it's scary sometimes to think that we might be losing sight of our roots, the things we all fell in love with about it in the first place.

"The whole thing about country music is simplicity, 'Less is more.' You don't have to get all overblown. You just have to be honest."

That's not just talk. Terri Clark lives those words. As the media has discovered during the past few months, candor, humor and forthright honesty are indicative of her personality. Her casual, plain-spoken style is marvelously refreshing in this era of pre-packaged celebrities. Her unashamed enthusiasm and downright joy about what's happening in her life defy every rule about acting "cool," and the fans love her for it.

She was raised on the plains of Alberta in western Canada, the heart of the nation's cattle country. Clark's grandparents had been country stars in Quebec and her mother strummed guitar add sang country oldies instead of lullabies to her kids at night. At age 9, Terri began playing guitar herself.

She recalls being obsessed with country music throughout her teens. Every time an awards show was on TV, Terri became hypnotized. When it was over she'd cry because she wanted to move to Nashville so badly. She covered the walls of her bedroom with photos of The Judds, Reba McEntire, Ricky Skaggs, Randy Travis, Barbara Mandrell and the other stars of the '80s. A fevered dream was burning inside. Terri Clark was a starstruck 18 year-old when her mother brought her to Nashville in 1987.

"It was totally a leap of faith," Terri recalls. "I was fresh from the prairie. We went into t Tootsie's Orchid Lounge and there was a guy playing for tips. I boldly went up and asked him if I could go up on his break; and I started singing. I did these impersonations of John Conlee and John Anderson and George Jones and people started filtering in from the street. By the time I got ready to leave, the place was full. They hired me."

The green kid had entered the Nashville music world at Ground Zero, the seedy honky-tonk district of Lower Broadway. Mama went home three dauys later. Terri rode the bus for transportation, tied her guitar case to her wrist with a shoestring for safety and plunged into the world of spilled beer, falling-down drunks and svarm country-music applause. She sang at Tootsie's; she sang at Gilley's; she sang at the Wax Museum. She went to Fan Fair to ask for autographs and dream. She waited tables; she worked in a boot store. With pluck and determination, Terri Clark slowly climbed the show-biz ladder. Eight years of tears, hope, heartache, victories, defeats and faith later, Mercury Records gave her a shot.

In the fall of 1995, "Better Things To Do" roared to No. 1, 2, and 3, respectively, in the trade publications, Gavin, R&R, and Billboard. Three more self-penned hits from Terri Clark made her one of the brightest new stars of 1996 "When Boy Meets Girl," "If I Were You" and "Suddenly Single." She went on the road as the opening act for superstar George Strait and created a major "buzz" with her energetic, frolicking, boot-stompin' stage presence. Her longtime concert crowd pleaser? "Poor,'Poor Pitiful Me," bolted from the starting gate as the advance single from Just The Same. Its sprightly arrangement at once pays homage to Linda Ronstadt'sX version and stakes Terries claim to the song as her own.

As awards have showered down around her, the lanky beauty has retained her down- toearth attitude and her unmistakable joie de vivre.

"I just want to keep doing this and doing this, and getting better over time. This isn't about being a 'phenomenon.' It's about having longevity. I look at people like Reba and Dolly and George Strait and think, 'That's what I want,' a career.

"I am completely walking on air," says Terri Clark. "This is just like Cinderella going to the ball. Except I don't wear a dress."



The Medicine Hat, Alberta-raised (but Montreal-born) Terri Clark says she has country music in her blood. Her grandparents were stars of the Canadian country music circuit in the 1950s and 1960s, and her mother played guitar and was singing in coffee houses while pregnant. It "must have sunk in," she says.

After spending her teen years obsessed with the Nashville sound, she moved down there to pursue her dream in 1987, and seven years later signed to Mercury Records. She released her debut self-titled CD in 1995, and her second CD, Just the Same, came out in 1996.

She's been nominated for female vocalist of the year at the Canadian Country Music Awards two years in running, 1996 and 1997, as well as Single of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year, Video of the Year and Rising Star award in 1996, and Fan's Choice Award, Single of the Year and Album of the Year in 1997. At the 1997 Junos, she won Best New Solo Artist.