★★★★★
There really aren't enough curse words in the English language to express how bad this record is. Messina is one of the worst musicians messing up the considerably polluted airwaves of country radio, and Delicious Surprise, her least-country album yet, is about as delicious and surprising as the taste in your mouth after a night of punch-drunk onion eating. Sadly, the taste doesn't imply any fun had the night before...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Jo Dee Messina steps up to theplate with a grown woman's attitude toward life and love and astyle that blends the vocal cadences of Reba McEntire with thelyrical worldliness of K.T. Oslin. Messina should writemore ? her one tune, "On a Wing and a Prayer," is the album'sbest ? but in choosing songs about commitment versus the lure ofthe road, she uncovers taut moments of truth. A most welcomedebut. B+
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
It's a curiosity that Holliston native Jo Dee Messina didn't become a bigger star in the country pop realm. Her steel-toed voice, smart songwriting instincts, and emotional style put her squarely in Nashville's sweet spot in the late '90s and early '00s. And although she did very well, scoring a slew of hit singles and a few platinum records, she never quite attained Faith Hill-style recognition...
- www.boston.com
2010-04-29
★★★★★
Jo Dee Messina's third album of life-affirming songs, Burn, encourages women, especially, to rally theirdreams. But this time, the tunes, colored with Sheryl Crow-likevocal inflections ("Closer," "These Are the Days"), lack the meatof previous hits, succeeding more on sizzle than substance.Still, with its rocking beat and joie de vivre, Burn will makeyou put the top down and sing out loud. B
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
The challenge for many mainstream country artists? Coming across as a rebel shit-stirrer even as you play by a strict set of musical and career rules -- rules that constrain Nashville divas more tightly than anyone else. Bouncing back from a painful breakup -- as well as her record company's shelving of
her fourth album in favor of a 2003 hits collection -- Jo Dee Messina delivers a can't-fail reconfiguration of that lost disc...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
For years, country radio has focused its attention on women ages 25-44; that's where their advertisers think the buying power is, so that's who the stations most want listening. With a few exceptions (alpha male Toby Keith comes to mind), the biggest stars of the genre are those who appeal to that coveted demographic: pinups like Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, and Rascal Flatts, alongside women such as Martina McBride, queen of the message song, and redneck queen manqué Gretchen Wilson. (Some brea...
- www.stylusmagazine.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Country singer Jo Dee Messina has been voted top new female vocalist by the Academy of County Music, and walked away with the Country Music Association's Horizon Award. Before then she made her full-length debut into the music world with this 1996 self-titled album. Producers Byron Gallimore and well-known singer Tim McGraw oversaw the recording. The resulting album was an impressive outing for Messina...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Co-producers Tim McGraw and Byron Gallimore struck gold on Burn, Jo Dee Messina's third offering for Curb, and her last for five solid years. The formula on her first two offerings, her self-titled debut (1996) and I'm Alright (1998), seemed to work, and the pair didn't tinker with it all that much, except for the fact that the pair could see the bend in the road where the fork between contemporary country and slick adult pop came together and they met it head on...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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