Delicious Surprise

Delicious Surprise
Studio album by Jo Dee Messina
Released	April 26, 2005 (2005-04-26)
Genre	Country
Label	Curb
Producer	Mark Bright Byron Gallimore Tim McGraw Jo Dee Messina
Jo Dee Messina chronology
Greatest Hits (2003) Delicious Surprise (2005) Unmistakable: Love (2010)
Singles from Delicious Surprise
"My Give a Damn's Busted" Released: February 2005 "Delicious Surprise (I Believe It)" Released: June 2005 "Not Going Down" Released: 2005 "It's Too Late to Worry" Released: 2006

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	[2]

Delicious Surprise is the name of 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

1. "Not Going Down" (Kevin Savigar, Shaunn Bolton) - 3:16
2. "Someone Else's Life" (Danny Wells, John Bettis, Chris Farren) - 3:27
3. "Delicious Surprise (I Believe It)" (Beth Hart, Glen Burtnik) - 3:48
4. "It Gets Better" (Jo Dee Messina) - 4:32
5. "Who's Crying Now" (Patrick Jason Matthews, George Teren) - 3:29
6. "My Give a Damn's Busted" (Joe Diffie, Tom Shapiro, Tony Martin) - 3:18
7. "It's Too Late to Worry" (Ron Harbin, Danny Wells, Anthony L. Smith) - 3:55
8. "Life Is Good" (Messina, Mark Selby) - 3:12
9. "Love Is Not Enough" (Messina, Mike Reid) - 3:55
10. "Where Were You" (Messina, Bettis, Wayne Kirkpatrick) - 3:31
11. "I Wear My Life" (Shaye Smith, Katrina Elam, Christi Dannemiller) - 4:08
12. "You Were Just Here" (Brett James, Troy Verges, Hillary Lindsey) - 3:27

Chart performance

Chart (2005)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	1
U.S. Billboard 200	7

References

1. ^ Delicious Surprise at Allmusic
2. ^ http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jodeemessina/albums/album/7184834/review/7263947/delicious_surprise

Preceded by The Right to Bare Arms by Larry the Cable Guy

Top Country Albums number-one album May 14 - May 21, 2005

Succeeded by Modern Day Drifter by Dierks Bentley