Artist: Terri Clark Release Date: 1995 Format: CD Record Label: Mercury Nashville Genre: Country UPC: 731452699121 Sub-Genre: Mainstream Track listing 1. Better Things to Do 2. If I Were You 3. Catch 22 4. Is Fort Worth Worth It 5. When Boy Meets Girl 6. Tyin' a Heart to a Tumbleweed 7. When We Had It Bad 8. Suddenly Single 9. Flowers After the Fact 10. Inside Story, The 11. Was There a Girl on Your Boys' Night Out 12. Something You Should've Said Details Contributing artists: John Wesley Ryles, Matt Rollings, Stuart Duncan Producer: Chris Waters, Keith Stegall Distributor: Universal Distribution Recording type: Studio Recording mode: Stereo SPAR Code: n/a Album notes Personnel: Terri Clark (vocals); Biff Watson, Don Potter, D. James Lowry (acoustic guitar); Brent Mason (electric guitar, tic tac bass, 6-string bass); Richard Bennett (electric guitar); Sonny Garrish (steel guitar, lap steel); Stuart Duncan (fiddle, mandolin); Joe Spivey (fiddle); Matt Rollings (piano); Duncan Mullins, Glenn Worf (electric bass); Eddie Bayers (drums); John Kelton (cowbell); John Wesley Ryles, Dennis Wilson, Liana Manis (background vocals). Recorded at Sound Stage Studios, Nashville, Tennessee. That she bucks the glitzy fashion trends of current female country stars is but one of the reasons to like Terri Clark. Dressed comfortably in a hat, boots and jeans, fronting fiddles and steel strings, she makes it obvious from the onset that a shimmering country melody is more important to her than a rhinestone suit. As with Patty Loveless, Clark's warm, confident vocals perfectly complement her neo-traditional material. A powerful singer, she can belt out a rocker as easily as she can soothe a listener with a ballad. Ballads are the strength of her self-titled debut, and Clark offers plenty of them--the savvy "If I Were You," the cowboy love song "Tyin' A Heart To A Tumbleweed," and the vulnerable, bluesy "The Inside Story" are particularly captivating. But she can also stir things up, as she does on the rollicking, sly single "Better Things To Do." The track firmly plants her in the don't-mess-with-me school of female country singers, whose principal is Loretta Lynn. Terri Clark tells her guy she'd rather watch "Donahue," or wash her hair in the rain, than be with him. Laid-back and lethal, it's light years from songs like "Stand By Your Man." Editorial reviews ...her firmness and sarcasm are enjoyably believable....In achieving current country's obligatory tough/tender balance, Clark manages to seem original... - Rating: B Entertainment Weekly (08/11/1995) ...[Clark] sounds tough, her voice possessing that touch of near-yodel that suggests she grew up within the sounds of the Opry... Mojo (06/01/1996)