Terri Clark w/Erin Enderlin

Erin Enderlin

Reading Erin Enderlin’s name, you might feel as though you’ve seen it before, and you may be right: She’s had cuts with a nicely varied array of country artists, from hard-core traditionalist Bradley Walker through future Hall of Famers Alan Jackson (who took Enderlin’s co-write “Monday Morning Church” onto the radio a dozen years ago) and Lee Ann Womack, all the way to current hit-maker Luke Bryan. But Enderlin’s been working on her performance chops, too — you can clearly hear that in the difference between her 2011 and 2013 renderings of a couple of those cuts. Since then, she’s only gotten better — and while it’s a mistake to think that a songwriter’s version is always the best or the most compelling, Enderlin’s proof that sometimes it really is true. Terri Clark, who recorded Enderlin’s “Not Enough Tequila” on 2005’s Life Goes On, headlines with her own solo set — and if that isn’t filled with Clark’s own songs, too, it ought to be. JON WEISBERGER

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