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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11330 in Music
• Released on: 2005-04-26
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
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

Customer Reviews

Good CD
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!
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
Every song on this CD is great. One of my favorite CDs in my collection.