Life Goes On (Terri Clark album)

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Life Goes On
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Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 1, 2005
Genre Country
Length44:20
Label Mercury Nashville
Producer Byron Gallimore (tracks 2,4,6-12)
James Stroud (tracks 1,3,5)
Terri Clark chronology
Greatest Hits 1994-2004
(2004)
Life Goes On
(2005)
Terri Clark Live: Road Rage
(2009)
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Life Goes On is the sixth studio album by Canadian country music singer Terri Clark. It was released on November 1, 2005 by Mercury Nashville. The album was originally supposed to be titled Honky Tonk Songs and was scheduled for an April 2005 release, with its lead being "The World Needs a Drink". [2] The album was later delayed, with the supposed lead single being scrapped from Life Goes On. The album was Clark's final release for Mercury Records after the album underperformed expectations.

Contents

Receiving mostly favorable reviews, Life Goes On became Clark's last top ten album on the Top Country Albums chart and final entry on the Billboard 200. The album spawned three singles, only one of which ("She Didn't Have Time") entered the Hot Country Songs chart. Two other singles were released, "Damn Right" and "Slow News Day", with the former failing to enter any charts and the latter becoming a top-twenty Canadian country hit.

Original track list

Before it was delayed, Honky Tonk Songs had a near similar track list:

  1. Honky Tonk Song
  2. I Wish He'd Been Drinkin' Whiskey
  3. Damn Right (I'm Gonna Miss You)
  4. The World Needs a Drink
  5. Cowboy Days
  6. Travelin' Soul
  7. Bigger Windows
  8. Everybody's Gotta Go Sometime
  9. You Gotta Love That
  10. Slow News Day
  11. Tear It All Down
  12. Last Good Time

"Last Good Time" and "The World Needs a Drink" were both scrapped from the record, with "She Didn't Have Time" and "Not Enough Tequila" replacing the songs.

Singles

When the album was originally titled Honky Tonk Songs, the song "The World Needs a Drink" (credited on its chart run as "I Think The World Needs a Drink") was released on October 4, 2004 to country radio. [3] The song was released quickly after Clark's previous single "Girls Lie Too" from her greatest hits album went number one on the Hot Country Songs chart (then known as "Hot Country Singles & Tracks"). The song debuted on the Hot Country Songs chart the week of November 20, 2004 at number 44, the "Hot Shot Debut" of the week. [4] The song later rose to a peak of number 26 on February 19, 2005, spending two weeks at the spot; the song spent 19 weeks in total.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Life Goes On" Bob DiPiero, Karyn Rochelle 2:59
2."Damn Right" Julian Gallagher, Craig Wiseman 4:04
3."She Didn't Have Time" Pat Bunch, Nicole Witt3:22
4."Cowboy Days" Kent Blazy, Leslie Satcher 3:32
5."Not Enough Tequila"Jim "Moose" Brown, Erin Enderlin3:22
6."Bigger Windows"Connie Harrington, Kelley Lovelace, Tim Nichols 3:48
7."I Wish He'd Been Drinkin' Whiskey"DiPiero, Rochelle4:21
8."Honky Tonk Song"Blazy, Satcher3:51
9."Travelin' Soul" Lisa Brokop, Mark Narmore, Liz Rose 4:10
10."Everybody's Gotta Go Sometime" Terri Clark, Gilles Godard, Bobby Tomberlin3:45
11."Slow News Day"Clark4:10
12."Tear It All Down"Clark, Lisa Scott, Stephony Smith2:56

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (2005)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums4
U.S. Billboard 20026

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References

  1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Life Goes On review". Allmusic . Retrieved 22 September 2009.
  2. "Terri Clark : Better in a Dodge". aCountry. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
  3. Billboard Radio Monitor, October 1, 2004. p.20
  4. Billboard, November 20, 2004. p.63