Delicious Surprise
| Delicious Surprise | ||||
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| Studio album by Jo Dee Messina | ||||
| Released | April 26, 2005 | |||
| Recorded | 2004 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | Curb | |||
| Producer |
Mark Bright Byron Gallimore Tim McGraw Jo Dee Messina | |||
| Jo Dee Messina chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Delicious Surprise | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Rolling Stone |  [2] |
Delicious Surprise is the fourth album by American country music artist Jo Dee Messina, released in 2005. Her first studio album since Burn almost five years previous, it produced a Number One single on the Billboard country music charts in "My Give a Damn's Busted", a song co-written by country singer Joe Diffie and originally recorded on his 2001 album In Another World. Additional singles released from Delicious Surprise include "Delicious Surprise (I Believe It)", "Not Going Down", and "It's Too Late to Worry", all of which charted in the Top 40 on the country charts as well. The album has been certified Gold by the RIAA.
Track listing
- "Not Going Down" (Kevin Savigar, Shaunn Bolton) - 3:16
- "Someone Else's Life" (Danny Wells, John Bettis, Chris Farren) - 3:27
- "Delicious Surprise (I Believe It)" (Beth Hart, Glen Burtnik) - 3:48
- "It Gets Better" (Jo Dee Messina) - 4:32
- "Who's Crying Now" (Patrick Jason Matthews, George Teren) - 3:29
- "My Give a Damn's Busted" (Joe Diffie, Tom Shapiro, Tony Martin) - 3:18
- "It's Too Late to Worry" (Ron Harbin, Danny Wells, Anthony L. Smith) - 3:55
- "Life Is Good" (Messina, Mark Selby) - 3:12
- "Love Is Not Enough" (Messina, Mike Reid) - 3:55
- "Where Were You" (Messina, Bettis, Wayne Kirkpatrick) - 3:31
- "I Wear My Life" (Shaye Smith, Katrina Elam, Christi Dannemiller) - 4:08
- "You Were Just Here" (Brett James, Troy Verges, Hillary Lindsey) - 3:27
Personnel
Compiled from liner notes.[3]
Musicians
- Larry Beaird — acoustic guitar
- Mark Beckett — drums
- Bekka Bramlett — tambo drums, tambourine, background vocals
- Mike Brignardello — bass guitar
- Pat Buchanan — electric guitar
- Tom Bukovac — electric guitar
- Lisa Cochran — background vocals
- Dan Dugmore — steel guitar
- Stuart Duncan — fiddle, mandolin
- Shannon Forrest — drums, percussion
- Larry Franklin — mandolin
- Paul Franklin — steel guitar, slide guitar, Dobro
- Kevin "Swine" Grantt — bass guitar
- Kenny Greenberg — electric guitar
- Aubrey Haynie — fiddle, mandolin
- Wes Hightower — background vocals
- Troy Lancaster — electric guitar
- Michael Landau — electric guitar
- B. James Lowry — acoustic guitar
- Brent Mason — electric guitar, acoustic guitar
- Jo Dee Messina — lead vocals
- Gene Miller — tambo drums, background vocals
- Steve Nathan — piano, synthesizer, synthesizer strings, organ, Wurlitzer electric piano
- Jimmy Nichols — keyboards, organ, accordion, piano
- Russ Pahl — steel guitar, banjo, electric guitar, Dobro
- Kim Parent — background vocals
- Javier Solis — tambo drums
- Bryan Sutton — acoustic guitar
- Russell Terrell — background vocals
- Lonnie Wilson — drums
- Glenn Worf — bass guitar
- Jonathan Yudkin — fiddle
Production
- Tracks 1, 3, 9: Byron Gallimore and Tim McGraw
- Tracks 4-6, 8, 11: Byron Gallimore and Jo Dee Messina
- Track 2, 7, 10, 12: Mark Bright and Jo Dee Messina
Chart performance
| Chart (2005) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard 200 | 7 |
References
- ↑ Delicious Surprise at AllMusic
- ↑ http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jodeemessina/albums/album/7184834/review/7263947/delicious_surprise
- ↑ Delicious Surprise (CD liner notes). Jo Dee Messina. Curb Records. 2005. 78770.
| Preceded by The Right to Bare Arms by Larry the Cable Guy |
Top Country Albums number-one album May 14–21, 2005 |
Succeeded by Modern Day Drifter by Dierks Bentley |
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