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Though an exact date has not been set yet, Terri Clark has announced her next album, The Long Way Home, will be hitting stores in September.
Terri’s been off the radar a bit the last few years as she’s gone through some personal issues. Three years ago she learned that her mother was fighting cancer and though the tumor was successfully removed and her mother is currently doing well, Terri felt that she needed a change.
“When you see someone fighting as hard as my Mom was, it strikes you the things that matter. To her, life was everything. It was about personal integrity, her family, the things she loved about living…and I realized I couldn’t make my music for any less. My fans deserved that from me, especially after the stories they tell me about things my music’s gotten them through over the years.”
She asked to be released from her contract with SonyBMG, who granted it, and Terri has struck out on her own with the new album. She said she needed a sound that was more personal, raw and “country” than what she could do with SonyBMG, and she’s put a lot of work into it. Terri says:
“I really tried to ‘cast’ these sessions. I needed a certain kind of burn from the guitars – so that’s Kenny Greenburg. I needed a honky tonk, and then a steamy, but also a spiritual kind of keyboard on there – so that was John Hobbs. I tried to think about what these songs called for, and once I got the players, I wanted them to be able to really create, really dig inside and feel what was going on. So many of them have recorded with me over the years, so I trusted they’d know where to go.”
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