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''Delicious Surprise'' is the fifth studio album by American
country music Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is p ...
artist
Jo Dee Messina Jo Dee Marie Messina (born August 25, 1970) is an American country music artist. She has charted six number-one singles on the ''Billboard charts, Billboard'' country music charts. She has been honored by the Country Music Association and the ...
, released on April 26, 2005 via
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. Her first non-Christmas album since ''Burn'' (2000), the album was recorded following the release of her first greatest hits collection in 2003. ''Delicious Surprise'' is Messina's first album in which she is credited as a producer. Messina also had a bigger hand in the writing of the album, co-writing three songs and solely writing another song. The album became her third number one on the
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chart and her first top ten album on the all-genre
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, peaking at number seven. The lead single, " My Give a Damn's Busted", became one of her most successful singles to date, topping the
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chart for two weeks. Follow-up singles " Delicious Surprise (I Believe It)", "
Not Going Down "Not Going Down" is a song recorded by American country music artist Jo Dee Messina. The song was written by Kevin Savigar and Shaunn Bolton and produced by Byron Gallimore and Tim McGraw. It was released on December 5, 2005, as the third single fr ...
", and " It's Too Late to Worry", although less successful, all peaked within the top-forty. The album has been certified
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by the
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. Following this album, Messina wouldn't release another commercially released album until 2014, with her sixth studio album '' Me''. The singer had attempted a follow up to ''Delicious Surprise'' titled ''Unmistakable''. Although a few singles were released from the recording sessions, Messina's label constantly delayed the album and it would end up being scrapped and divided into three
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, with '' Unmistakable: Love'' charting on ''Billboard'' charts. This would be the last project Messina released for
Curb Records Curb Records (also known as Asylum-Curb and formerly known as MCG Curb) is an American record label started by Mike Curb, originally as Sidewalk Records in 1963. From 1969 to 1973, Curb merged with MGM Records where Curb served as President of M ...
before leaving the label in late 2012 to go independent.


Commercial performance

''Delicious Surprise'' debuted on the
Top Country Albums Top Country Albums is a chart published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine in the United States. The 50-position chart lists the most popular country music albums in the country, calculated weekly by Broadcast Data Systems based on physical sales ...
on May 14, 2005 at number one, selling 99,000 copies in its first week. Coincidentally, ''Delicious Surprise'' went number one on the country charts the same week " My Give a Damn's Busted" rose to the top of the
Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States. This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data along with digital sales and streaming. ...
chart. The album gave Messina the best first-sales week of her career. The album also managed to debut at number seven on the ''Billboard'' 200, surpassing the number-14 peak set by her 2003 ''Greatest Hits'' collection to becoming her highest-charting album on that chart. However, the album quickly fell from its peak positions on both charts due to the poor success of the following singles. ''Delicious Surprise'' only spent 40 weeks on Top Country Albums and 16 weeks on the ''Billboard'' 200.


Track listing


Personnel

Compiled from liner notes.


Musicians

*
Jo Dee Messina Jo Dee Marie Messina (born August 25, 1970) is an American country music artist. She has charted six number-one singles on the ''Billboard charts, Billboard'' country music charts. She has been honored by the Country Music Association and the ...
– lead vocals *
Steve Nathan Steven Jay Nathan (born April 20, 1951) is an American keyboardist. He is known for his session work in Muscle Shoals and Nashville studios. Biography Nathan was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. In 1977, Nathan moved to Muscle Shoals, A ...
– acoustic piano (1, 9), synthesizers (1, 9),
Wurlitzer electric piano The Wurlitzer electronic piano is an electric piano manufactured and marketed by Wurlitzer from 1954 to 1983. Sound is generated by striking a metal reed with a hammer, which induces an electric current in a pickup. It is conceptually similar to ...
(3),
organ Organ and organs may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a group of tissues organized to serve a common function * Organ system, a collection of organs that function together to carry out specific functions within the body. Musical instruments ...
(9) * Jimmy Nichols – keyboards (2, 7, 10, 12), organ (4-6, 8, 11), acoustic piano (5),
accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...
(12) *
Pat Buchanan Patrick Joseph Buchanan ( ; born November 2, 1938) is an American paleoconservative author, political commentator, and politician. He was an assistant and special consultant to U.S. presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. He ...
– electric guitar (1) *
Michael Landau Michael Christopher Landau (born June 1, 1958) is an American musician, audio engineer, and record-producer. He is a session musician and guitarist who has played on many albums since the early 1980s with Boz Scaggs, Minoru Niihara, Joni Mitchel ...
– electric guitar (1, 3, 9) * B. James Lowry – acoustic guitar (1, 3) *
Brent Mason Brent Mason (born July 13, 1959) is an American country music guitarist, songwriter and session musician. ''Guitar World'' magazine listed Mason as one of the "Top Ten Session Guitarists of All Time". Discovered and mentored by Chet Atkins, Maso ...
– electric guitar (1, 3, 9), acoustic guitar (9) * Larry Beaird – acoustic guitar (2) * Troy Lancaster – electric guitar (2, 7, 10, 12) * Russ Pahl – electric guitar (3),
banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and in modern forms is usually made of plastic, where early membranes were made of animal skin. ...
(3),
dobro Dobro () is an American brand of resonator guitars owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally a gui ...
(3),
steel guitar A steel guitar () is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar". The instrument differs from a conventional guitar i ...
(3) *
Tom Bukovac Tom Bukovac (born December 20, 1968) is an American session guitarist and producer. He is also a popular YouTube personality with over 100,000 subscribers. He is a five-time winner of Music Row's Top Ten Album All-Stars award in the guitar categ ...
– electric guitar (4-8, 11, 12) *
Bryan Sutton James Bryan Sutton (born 1973) is an American musician. Primarily known as a flatpicking acoustic guitar player, Sutton also plays mandolin, banjo, ukulele, and electric guitar. He also sings and writes songs. Biography Early career Sutton's gr ...
– acoustic guitar (4-8, 10-12) *
Kenny Greenberg Kenneth S. Greenberg is an American guitarist, songwriter, producer, and session musician. He is known for bringing a rock-and-roll sensibility to Nashville recording sessions. Biography Greenberg was born in Cleveland, Ohio but attended junio ...
– electric guitar (9) * Paul Franklin –dobro (1, 4, 6, 8, 11),
slide guitar Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos that ...
(1, 6, 8), steel guitar (4, 5, 7-9, 11, 12) *
Dan Dugmore Dan Dugmore is an American session musician known primarily for playing the pedal steel guitar Born in 1949, Dugmore was raised in Pasadena, California. Influenced by the Flying Burrito Brothers, he learned to play steel guitar after Flying Bur ...
– steel guitar (2, 10) *
Aubrey Haynie Aubrey E. Haynie (born March 27, 1974) is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle and mandolin. In his career, he has recorded three studio albums for the Sugar Hill Records label, all three of which contained mostly songs that he w ...
mandolin A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...
(1, 3, 10),
fiddle A fiddle is a Bow (music), bowed String instrument, string musical instrument, most often a violin or a bass. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including European classical music, classical music. Althou ...
(9) *
Stuart Duncan Stuart Ian Duncan (born April 14, 1964) is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and banjo. Life Duncan was born in Quantico, Virginia, and raised in Santa Paula, California, where he played in the school ...
– mandolin (3, 4, 11), fiddle (3, 4, 6) * Larry Franklin – mandolin (5, 7) *
Glenn Worf Glenn Worf is an American bassist known mainly for his work as a session musician. He has recorded with many major country music acts and also tours with Mark Knopfler. Early life and education Worf was born in Dayton, Ohio, and grew up in Madis ...
– bass (1) * Kevin "Swine" Grantt – bass (2, 10) *
Mike Brignardello Giant is an American melodic rock band that was formed in 1987. The band originally consisted of founding members Dann Huff (lead vocals and guitar) and Alan Pasqua (keyboard), and had Dann's brother David Huff on drums and Mike Brignardello o ...
– bass (3-9, 11, 12) *
Shannon Forrest Shannon Forrest (born August 22, 1973, in Easley, South Carolina) is an American drummer and percussionist known primarily for his session work. As a session drummer, he has contributed to the work of many well-known artists, and he is also a p ...
– drums (1, 4-6, 8, 10, 11) * Mark Beckett – drums (2) *
Lonnie Wilson Lonnie Wilson is an American drummer, songwriter, and record producer, known primarily for his work in country music. Life and career Born in Monroe, Louisiana, Wilson was originally the lead singer of the band Bandana, which charted ten single ...
– drums (3, 7, 9, 12) *
Bekka Bramlett Rebekka Ruth Lazone Bramlett (born April 19, 1968) is an American singer. She is the daughter of Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, of the music duo Delaney & Bonnie. Currently, she is a session singer, songwriter, and backing vocalist, working with ...
tambourine The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, thoug ...
(1), backing vocals (3) * Javier Solis – tambourine (9) *
Jonathan Yudkin Jonathan Yudkin is an American multi-instrumentalist who is a proficient player of banjo, violin, mandolin, and other stringed instruments. He is a session musician in Nashville as well as a record producer, arranger, and band leader. Biograph ...
– fiddle * Lisa Cochran – backing vocals (1, 2, 4-6, 8-11) * Gene Miller – backing vocals (1, 3, 9) * Russell Terrell – backing vocals (2, 7, 10, 12) * Wes Hightower – backing vocals (4-6, 8, 11) * Kim Parent – backing vocals (7, 12)


Production

* Byron Gallimore – producer (1, 3-6, 8, 9, 11), mixing (5, 6, 8, 9) * Tim McGraw – producer (1, 3, 9) * Mark Bright – producer (2, 7, 10, 12) * Jo Dee Messina – producer (2, 4-8, 10-12) * Derek Bason – recording, mixing (2, 10, 12) *
Chris Lord-Alge Chris Lord-Alge is an American mix engineer. He is the brother of both Tom Lord-Alge and Jeff Lord-Alge, both of whom are also audio engineers. Chris and Tom are known for their abundant use of dynamic range compression for molding mixes that ...
– mixing (1, 3, 4, 7, 11) * Scott Kidd – recording assistant * JR Rodriguez – recording assistant, mix assistant * Ken Love – mastering at MasterMix (Nashville, Tennessee) * Mike "Frog" Griffith – production coordinator * Glenn Sweitzer – art direction, design, photography * John Scarpati – photography * Randee St. Nicholas – photography * John Murphy – wardrobe * Mark Townsend – hair stylist * Rachel Dwyer – make-up * Dreamcatcher Artist Management – management


Chart performance


Weekly charts


Year-end charts


Singles


References

{{Authority control 2005 albums Albums produced by Byron Gallimore Curb Records albums Jo Dee Messina albums Albums produced by Mark Bright (record producer)