It was 1987 when Terri, her mother Linda and her best friend packed the aspiring singer and her belongings into a Honda Civic and drove from Canada to Nashville, leaving her to play for tips at Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, a legendary Lower Broadway honky-tonk. For years Terri bused herself across town constantly hoping for that “big break.”

Then, in 1995 after landing her first record deal, she launched her career with “Better Things to Do,” a contemporary twist on the no-nonsense approach of Kitty Wells’ “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.” From there, Terri went on to spawn 3 multi-platinum albums plus the Top 10 hits “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me,” “I Just Wanna Be Mad,” “I Wanna Do It All,” and “Girls Lie Too.”

The only Canadian female member of The Grand Ole Opry, she reveals the starting point for every part of the Terri Clark sound needs: the hardcore honky-tonk of Merle Haggard; the California country-rock of Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris; and the tough-minded women like Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline. And its this same recipe for her songs that Terri brings to America’s Morning Show every weekday morning. She’s lived the “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” way of life and she speaks directly to the country audience. Authenticity is the only language she speaks