Greatest Hits 1994-2004 (CD - 2004)

Personnel: Terri Clark (vocals); B. James Lowry (acoustic guitar); Brent Mason (electric guitar); Gary Prim (piano); Glenn Worf (bass instrument); Lonnie Wilson (drums); Wes Hightower (background vocals).

Known to some fans simply as "the girl with the hat," Terri Clark challenged the Nashville establishment in the mid-1990s by showing that a woman could play straight-up New Traditionalist country just as well as the boys, without resorting to revealing outfits and big hair. Coming off like a female Alan Jackson with a touch of Dwight Yoakam, Clark delivered her first single, "Better Things to Do" with a mix of authentic honky-tonk swagger and unabashed twang. In addition, she could sing ballads with a classic tear-in-your-beer roughness ("If I Were You") and deliver a slightly bawdy rocker in the best roadhouse tradition ("You're Easy on the Eyes"). GREATEST HITS, released in 2004, comes as promised, collecting a dozen of the singer's best-known tracks, along with two newly recorded songs that continue Clark's predilection for tough, no-nonsense country music. minimize