Terri Clark

Terri Clark, Western Idaho Fair , 2006

Terri Clark (* 5 August 1968 as Terri Lynn Sauson in Montreal , Quebec ) is a Canadian country singer whose career began in the mid-1990s. By 2009 she had 22 hits in the American country charts, including the two number one hits You're Easy on the Eyes (1998) and Girls Lie Too (2004). She is currently the only Canadian who has been accepted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry. She received this honor in 2004.

Beginnings

Terri Clark's grandparents Ray and Betty Gauthier were well known Canadian country musicians who opened shows for Johnny Cash , George Jones and Little Jimmy Dickens , among others . Clark's mother, Linda, was part of the folk scene and taught her to play the guitar when she was nine. After finishing school, she moved to Nashville in 1987 , where she was hired by Tootsie's Orchid Lounge for fifteen dollars a day . It took several years, in which she had to struggle to keep her head above water with simple jobs and poorly paid gigs, until she received a record deal from the Mercury label in 1994 . Clark was marketed more traditionally with a cowboy hat and clothing compared to other female singers in the genre.

Career

Their first single, Better Things To Do , made it to number three on the American country charts in 1995. Her debut album Terri Clark , which was released in the same year and contains several self-composed songs, was awarded platinum in the USA for over a million CDs sold. With When Boy Meets Girl and If I Were You , further top 10 singles were released. In early 1996 she was the first Canadian to appear in the Grand Ole Opry . She has also received several awards in her home country: in 1997 she was honored with the Juno Award as best new artist and in 2001 as best country singer of the year .

The following two albums, Just The Same (1996) and How I Feel (1998), sold just as well as their first album. They went platinum in both the United States and Canada. Clark had finally established himself in the scene. Numerous big hits in the country charts followed: Now That I Found You (1998, No. 2) and You're Easy on the Eyes (1998, No. 1), I Just Wanna Be Mad (2002, No. 2), I. Wanna Do It All (2003, 3rd place) and finally her last top 10 success to date, Girls Lie Too (2004, 1st place). Although their albums continued to place themselves high in the charts, sales fell and only the hit collection Greatest Hits 1994-2004 went gold. The album Life Goes On (2005) had a difficult time from the start: The singles that were released were only poorly placed, the pre-release The World Needs a Drink was not even considered for the final CD release. The title was also changed at short notice - Honky Tonky songs could be read in some press releases before. After these difficulties, Clark left the record company Mercury, which then published two reviews of the artist's work.

The record label BNA signed the artist in 2007, the singles Dirty Girl and In My Next Life were great successes in Canada, but only gave Clark medium hits in the USA. As a result, the planned album My Next Life was postponed several times and ultimately not released. The BNA contract ended prematurely in late 2008. The following live album Terri Clark Live: Road Rage (2009) was only released on the Internet. A new studio work followed shortly afterwards with The Long Way Home . This made her debut on an independent label . In interviews, she also announced that in the future she primarily wanted to take care of her career in her home country and possibly also overseas. She is still one of the most popular country musicians in Canada.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
1995	Terri Clark	US79 platinum (47 weeks)US	Country13 (90 weeks) Country
1996	Just the same	US58 platinum (25 weeks)US	Country10 (39 weeks) Country
1998	How I feel	US70 platinum (16 weeks)US	Country10 (67 weeks) Country
2000	Fearless	US85 (3 weeks) US	Country8 (40 weeks) Country
2003	Pain to Kill	US27 (8 weeks) US	Country5 (57 weeks) Country
2005	Life Goes On	US26 (5 weeks) US	Country4 (19 weeks) Country
2009	The Long Way Home	-	Country44 (4 weeks) Country
2011	Roots and Wings	-	Country69 (1 week) Country

More studio albums

• 2012: Classic
• 2014: Some Songs
• 2018: Raising the bar

Live albums

• 2009: Terri Clark Live: Road Rage

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2004	Greatest Hits 1994-2004	US14th gold (34 weeks)US	Country4 (80 weeks) Country

More compilations

• 2006: 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection
• 2008: The Definitive Collection

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
1995	Better Things to Do Terri Clark	-	Country3 (20 weeks) Country
	When Boy Meets Girl Terri Clark	-	Country3 (20 weeks) Country
1996	If I Were You Terri Clark	-	Country8 (20 weeks) Country
	Suddenly single Terri Clark	-	Country34 (12 weeks) Country
	Poor Poor Pitiful Me Just the Same	-	Country5 (20 weeks) Country
1997	Emotional Girl Just the Same	-	Country10 (20 weeks) Country
	Just the Same Just the Same	-	Country49 (10 weeks) Country
1998	Now That I Found You How I Feel	US72 (13 weeks) US	Country2 (26 weeks) Country
	You're Easy on the Eyes How I Feel	US40 (12 weeks) US	Country1 (26 weeks) Country
1999	Everytime I Cry How I Feel	US69 (8 weeks) US	Country12 (20 weeks) Country
	Unsung Hero How I Feel	-	Country47 (10 weeks) Country
2000	A Little Gasoline Fearless	US75 (6 weeks) US	Country13 (25 weeks) Country
2001	No fear fearless	-	Country27 (20 weeks) Country
	Getting There Fearless	-	Country41 (11 weeks) Country
2002	I Just Wanna Be Mad Pain to Kill	US27 (20 weeks) US	Country2 (34 weeks) Country
2003	Three Mississippi Pain to Kill	-	Country30 (18 weeks) Country
	I Wanna Do It All Pain to Kill	US38 (20 weeks) US	Country3 (30 weeks) Country
2004	Girls Lie Too Greatest Hits 1994-2004	US36 (15 weeks) US	Country1 (24 weeks) Country
	The World Needs a Drink	-	Country26 (19 weeks) Country
2005	She Didn't Have Time Life Goes On	-	Country25 (25 weeks) Country
2007	Dirty girl	-	Country30 (19 weeks) Country
	In My Next Life Life Goes On	-	Country36 (17 weeks) Country

More singles

• 1997: Something in the Water
• 2001: Empty
• 2006: Damn Right
• 2006: Slow News Day
• 2009: Gypsy Boots
• 2009: If You Want Fire
• 2010: A Million Ways to Run
• 2010: You Tell Me (feat.Johnny Reid)
• 2011: Northern Girl
• 2011: We're Here for a Good Time
• 2011: The One
• 2012: Wrecking Ball
• 2012: Love Is a Rose
• 2013: I'm Movin 'On (feat. Dean Brody)
• 2014: Some Songs
• 2014: Longer
• 2015: I Cheated on You
• 2018: One Drink Ago (with Dallas Smith)
• 2018: Young as We Are Tonight

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
1996	Hope	-	Country57 (4 weeks) Country	Various artists

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Canada 2001: for the album Fearless 2004: for the album Greatest Hits 1994-2004 Platinum record  Canada 1999: for the album How I Feel

2 × platinum record  Canada 1998: for the album Just The Same 3 × platinum record  Canada 1998: for the Terri Clark album

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Canada (MC)	2 × gold2	6 × platinum6th	700,000	musiccanada.com
United States (RIAA)	gold1	3 × platinum3	3,500,000	riaa.com
All in all	3 × gold3	9 × platinum9

Artist awards

year	Org.	Award	title
1996	TNN	New female vocalist

literature

• Erlewine, Michael et al. (Ed.): All Music Guide to Country Music. The experts guide to the best recordings in country music . San Francisco, Cal .: Miller Freeman Books, 1997, p. 90.

Web links

• Terri Clark's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Message on CountryMusicNews.de
2. ↑ Spotlight on Terri Clark on About.com
3. ^ The Awards Insider. Los Angeles Times
4. ↑ Message on ACountry.com
5. ^ Message on CountryStandardTime.com
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: US