Customer Reviews

Life Goes on

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4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(1)
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1 star:		(1)

 

 

Shania's got company! Here comes another Canadian beauty with a country heart and a crossover urge, which she satisfies on some of the tracks on this album.

With seven albums under her studded belt, Terri Clark has been around the country music scene since 1995, singing about love, loss, tears and lies, with all the usual trimmings, but on this album she lets loose with some pop, some honky tonk and a lot of energy.

Leading off with the pop-country "Life Goes On" the album launches itself with a blast, and just keeps going from there. Songs to remember are first single "She Didn't Have Time"; the toe tappin' "Cowboy Days"; the hi-energy and very funny "Honky Tonk Song"; the mellow "Travelin' Soul"; "Damn Right" and "Tear It All Down".

Maybe not classic country, but a fun, upbeat album for easy listening and a little boot stompin'

Amanda Richards, January 19, 2006

As I live in a city in Mexico near U.S. I don'thave the opportunity to go to many concerts I wish I could, it would imply to spend a lot of money, the only possible way would be to wait until some of my favorite singers came to Texas... but that's not the point...

I have just bought this CD and all I can say is that almost every song in the album would be a great hit on the radio.

Some of my favorites on it are:
1. She Didn't Have Time
2. Not Enough Tequila and
3. Travelin' Soul

Terri Clark returns with a new album LIFE GOES ON, after she released a greatest hits last year. I had the pleasure of seeing her live this summer and Terri is quite the entertainer. She sang a lot of songs from this new cd. The first single is the emotional ballad "She Didn't Have Time", about a single mother and the struggles she faces. She does some great uptempos like the title track, "Honky Tonk Song", "Damn Right", and others. She also gets personal on tracks like "Travelin Soul" and "Slow News Day". In the liner notes for the CD, she says that it's the album she came to Nashville to make. In concert she told us that it was a labor of love, and it took a few years to complete, but now it's finally here! Overall a strong album from Terri!

This album snapshots life. Some of the greatest moments--some not as great. The lyrics are a reflection of what we all think and what some experience. The heartfelt presentation of the ups and downs create a vibrant album that will have you singing the tunes and tapping the beats,as you reflect on your current situation. Even though there may not be enough tequila in Mexico, life goes on ,and it's sad and its sweet, and Terri will continue to create the great hits of our time. Thanks for some great tunes to reflect upon life, as it goes on.

I've always been a Terri clark fan but this is the first cd I've purchased by her. I was surprised at how much I really enjoyed this cd! Terri has an amazing voice and the songs kept me listening to the cd over and over again!

This is another great album by one of the only true female country music artist left in country music. Terri Clark juest seems to keep getting better with each new album she releases. There is not a weak track to be found on this CD either. A must have for any fan of true country music.

I had the pleasure of seeing Terri Clark live this year. If you get a chance to see her, take that opportunity because she puts on a hell of a show! She's very energetic and just an all around great entertainer. This is her first new studio album since 2003's PAIN TO KILL and last year's GREATEST HITS. The first single is the poignant ballad "She Didn't Have Time" about a single mother doing her best and finding love again. "Travelin Soul" is a nice ballad where Terri asks her lover if he can love her traveling soul. There's some great honky tonk uptempos like the bluesy "Honky Tonk Song", the pop-country uptempos "Life Goes On" and "Damn Right". Terri wrote the last three songs on the album, and a highlight is "Slow News Day" a ballad where Terri sings about how sad it is to watch the news since it's all bad news. Overall a great CD from a reliable country artist!

Okay, I give it 3 and a half stars, but considering that I would give everything else she has recorded either 4 and a half or five (well, in honest, fair comparison to all the other popular, contemporary artists out there), that is a slide down. Everything that was right about her career and style she seems to be disowning. I liked Pain to Kill, simply because I think no other guitarist/vocalist could have pulled a such a pop country album off with such sincerity, but I could read the handwriting on the wall. The people who had no appreciation for Fearless have basically forced her to record other people's crappy songs--oh, I'm sure that no one else could have sung them as well as she did here--and have basically made sure that she has no room to fly anymore. But I guess she wants to be a star now. There are a few good tracks off of this C.D, and at least it's entertaining. I don't want to seem harsh, but I think she needs a wake-up call. She is too good of an artist to be pandering to the blathering masses who think that "I wanna be mad" is the best thing she ever recorded. But whatever, five superb albums was way too many...and maybe this is just a rough spot. The guy who wrote the 1 star review was a little harsh, but at least he seems to be the only one of this bunch of reviewers who has a sense of what is good music. Although not exclusively a country fan, I tend to think that if you play within a certain genre, you should be 1.innovative 2.clever and 3.original going about it. These three things are all the things that contemporary country is not...and it makes me sick. I don't get upset if there are no banjos or fiddles, I just want something with artistic credibility. I hope Terri happens to be reading through these reviews and spot that she has upset a die-hard fan. I think she needs a kick in the pants for this C.D.

Through the waning sounds of country comes a troubeadour wearing a cowboy hat. Maybe Terri Clark can save country music some dignity. In the years of pop-country, Clark has managed to retain her country style where others have gone astray. "Life Goes On" is full of musical gems with a wide variety of ballads and up-tempo numbers, all of which Clark can showcase her vocals. Each album Clark has put out has held it's own place in country. She is not a popularized diva, with shallow lyrics and melodies. Instead, she has found her niche in songs like "Damn Right" and "Travelin Soul" where a true artist can shine. Clark has saved many ears from the drowning genre. Maybe country can once again reclaim it's glory days with such fantastic albums as "Life Goes On".

Album truly much beautiful one. Terri Clarck demonstrates, one only artistic maturity. Is her return to straight-ahead hard country.