Pain to Kill

2003 studio album by Terri Clark

Pain to Kill

Studio album by

Terri Clark

Released

January 14, 2003

Genre

Country

Length

44:40

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

"I Just Wanna Be Mad"
Released: August 19, 2002
"Three Mississippi"
Released: March 10, 2003
"I Wanna Do It All"
Released: August 25, 2003

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Robert Christgau	^[1]

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.

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.	Title	Writer(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 Harrington	3:46
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 Smith	3:36
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 Russ	3:47
11.	"The First to Fall"	Pat Bunch, Clark, Georgia Middleman	4:26
12.	"God and Me"	Carol Ann Brown, Clark	4:12

Personnel

Pat Buchanan – electric guitar
Mark Casstevens – banjo
Terri Clark – lead vocals
J.T. Corenflos – electric guitar
Stuart Duncan – fiddle, mandolin
Paul Franklin – steel guitar
Vince Gill – background vocals
Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar
Aubrey Haynie – fiddle
Wes Hightower – background vocals
John Hughey – steel guitar
Hillary Lindsey – background vocals
B. James Lowry – electric guitar
Liana Manis – background vocals
Brent Mason – electric guitar
Steve Nathan – keyboards
Gary Prim – piano
John Wesley Ryles – background vocals
Leslie Satcher – background vocals
Keith Stegall – harmonica
Bruce Watkins – banjo
Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
Lonnie Wilson – drums
Glenn Worf – bass guitar
Jonathan Yudkin – fiddle

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2003)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA Charts)^[3]	86
US Billboard 200^[4]	27
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[5]	5

Year-end charts

Chart (2003)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[6]	42

References

^ Christgau, Robert. "Pain to Kill". Robert Christgau.
^ "'Pain' brings Mercury artist Terri Clark Much Success" (PDF). Billboard. April 12, 2003.
^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 60.
^ "Terri Clark Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
^ "Terri Clark Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2003". Billboard. Retrieved November 2, 2020.