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List Price: $7.98 | | Label: Curb Records
Salesrank: 11093
Released: April 26, 2005 |
| Our Price: $4.07 |
| Used Price: $0.99 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Delicious Surprise Track Listing:
1. Not Going Down
2. Someone Else's Life
3. Delicious Surprise (I Believe It)
4. It Gets Better
5. Who's Crying Now
6. My Give A Damn's Busted
7. It's Too Late To Worry
8. Life Is Good
9. Love Is Not Enough
10. Where Were You
11. I Wear My Life
12. You Were Just Here
Editorial Review:
On her fourth studio album, Messina, country's queen of hope and empowerment, roars back after a four-year hiatus, during which she went public with a stint at rehab and broke off a nine-year relationship with her fiancé. Those events stand at the center of two of the best ballads on the album ("It Gets Better" and "Sometimes Love Is Just Not Enough"), and please not only because Messina wrote (or cowrote) them from real-life struggles, but because the songs soften the numbing bombast that producers Byron Gallimore and Mark Bright bring to the rest of her repertoire. The singer--big-voiced, expansive, and as comforting as an old friend--is always a welcome presence on the radio, as she is on the album's first single, the upbeat and attitudinal kiss-off "My Give a Damn's Busted." What she needs is more songs like this that break her out of her usual mold (in addition to the aforementioned tracks that showcase her quieter side) and allow her to deliver a surprise or two. The ones offered here aren't quite as "delicious" as the album title promises, but even the most casual listener senses that Messina has so much spunk and grit that she'll gather them yet, her myopic producers be damned. --Alanna Nash
Delicious Surprise Reviews:
Love it! 
2008-09-30 - I really enjoyed this cd! I always like Jo Dee Messina and the tracks that she comes out with. Anyways I give the cd full five stars!!!
Good CD 
2008-08-20 - This is a good CD. I didn't know anything about Jo Dee Messina until I heard her on a TV commercial. I decided to try it & I'm glad I did.
She's Great!
2008-06-28 - I had looked and looked for this CD. I check for it on the Amazon site and it's right there. Terrific job on finding it and it sounds great as well!
Love this
2007-09-07 - Every song on this CD is great. One of my favorite CDs in my collection.
Do Not Mess with Messina
2007-07-17 - Good to see Jo Dee come back onto the charts with a very strong album, Delicious Surprise. I guess her absence was due to working out personal stuff, a bunch of which comes out on this record. It's definitely about empowerment and moving on to a significant degree. The songs have good, unapologetic lyrics, and Jo Dee sings with force and attitude. The song mix is good too. The album gets a little slower toward the end, but doesn't become tiresome. Good to have Jo Dee BAck. The really good songs on this one are:
Who's Crying Now
My Give a Damn's Busted
