Pain to Kill

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Pain to Kill
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Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 14, 2003
Genre Country
Length44:40
Label Mercury Nashville
Producer Byron Gallimore (tracks 1-3,5,6,8)
Keith Stegall (tracks 4,7,9-12)
Terri Clark chronology
Fearless
(2000)
Pain to Kill
(2003)
Greatest Hits 1994-2004
(2004)
Singles from Pain to Kill
  1. "I Just Wanna Be Mad"
    Released: August 19, 2002
  2. "Three Mississippi"
    Released: March 10, 2003
  3. "I Wanna Do It All"
    Released: August 25, 2003
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Pain to Kill is the fifth studio album by Canadian country music artist Terri Clark. It was released through Mercury Nashville on January 14, 2003. The album has been certified Gold by the RIAA, her last certified studio album to date in the United States. The album was produced by Byron Gallimore and Keith Stegall. Unlike her previous albums, Clark did not have a large hand in writing, only co-writing five of the album's twelve tracks.

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The album received posiitve reviews from music critics. Three singles were released from the album, including the top three hit singles "I Just Wanna Be Mad" and "I Wanna Do It All", with the former becoming her highest peaking single of all time on the Billboard Hot 100. The album also spawned the top-30 hit "Three Mississippi".

The album debuted at number five on the Top Country Albums chart and also became Clark's first album to chart in Australia. The album track "Not a Bad Thing" was later recorded by American country singer Trisha Yearwood for her eleventh studio album Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love (2007). By April 2003, the album had already sold 123,000 copies. [2]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Just Wanna Be Mad" Kelley Lovelace, Lee Thomas Miller 3:26
2."Three Mississippi" Angelo Petraglia, Hillary Lindsey, Troy Verges 3:59
3."Pain to Kill"Steve Bogard, Tom Shapiro 3:49
4."I Just Called to Say Goodbye"Julie Adkison, Connie Harrington3:46
5."I Wanna Do It All"Rick Giles, Gilles Godard, Tim Nichols 2:53
6."The One You Love" Gary Burr, Terri Clark 3:21
7."Almost Gone"Clark, Lisa Scott, Stephony Smith3:36
8."Working Girl" Matraca Berg, Randy Scruggs 3:22
9."Better Than You"Clark, Rory Lee Feek 4:03
10."Not a Bad Thing" Dave Berg, Deanna Bryant, Sunny Russ3:47
11."The First to Fall" Pat Bunch, Clark, Georgia Middleman 4:26
12."God and Me"Carol Ann Brown, Clark4:12

Personnel

Charts

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