Jo Dee Messina completes Boston Marathon
In a posting on her web site Sunday, Messina wrote "On the way home from registration my brother wanted to at least drive Heartbreak Hill. Apparently I had missed a turn on my journey yesterday morning and left out the final climb. For the first time I'm actually wondering if I can do this. I barely said a word. When I get scared I get quiet. My brother is the opposite. When he gets scared he can't shut up. Needless to say the ride home was Vinnie talking and me hardly listening. I keep trying to figure how to make it up those hills. I've never had to run anything like them before. Is pacing myself going to be enough? They're so late in the run, what will my legs feel like?"
"We're now back at the house. The fire Dept in Hopkinton has invited us to stay there tonight. That will be good. We locked down those plans this morning and will be heading over to the fire station at 8 p.m. this evening. My brother's wife is making us pasta for lunch and dinner. It's been quite a while since I've eaten pasta. It will be interesting to see how my body responds."
"I've been dealing with a sore right leg. A bit in the calf and mostly the hamstring. I'm hoping with one more nights sleep I'll be ready to go."
More news for Jo Dee Messina
- 07/16/24: Messina extends tour
- 07/07/23: Messina wants "Just To Be Loved"
- 03/10/23: Bush, Messina release discs
- 09/07/17: Messina discloses she has cancer
- 01/20/15: Messina sings at hockey all star game
- 01/16/14: Messina announces "Me"
- 08/20/13: For Messina, the winner is...
- 06/21/13: Messina successfully kick starts new CD
CD reviews for Jo Dee Messina
Jo Dee Messina wears her defiance on her sleeve. She leaves no doubt what she has in mind on her new disc from the title (don't think of that as being egotistical) to the instrumentation where the first instruments you hear is the banjo to Messina's proclamation:
"I've paid my dues, gotten bent and bruised/I've walked a 1,000 miles in these shoes/I'm here and I'm well/I've felt the fire; I've been through hell/I'm a little out of breath/But baby ...
If at first you don't succeed, your record company will punish you. That's what Jo Dee Messina learned in the past five years. What was one new album has now been converted into a trilogy of EPs to be released over the course of 2010 and grouped loosely by topic. This breaks the deadlock of Messina's wish to offer up all the new music she's been making against the business requirement of a monster hit. Messina's had a lot of those (nine number ones), so maybe it wasn't wholly unfair. ...
Despite the phallic guitar fondling on the enclosed poster, Jo Dee Messina's latest targets mainstream country's chief demographic - women. The 12-song set sports the usual Bryon Gallimore - Tim McGraw bag of tricks - '70s rock guitars and heavy pop chorus augmented with smatterings of hard fiddle, twangy Dobro and banjo. Yet, Messina's brassy humor, positive attitude and full-throated passion triumphs over the formulaic production chops.
Messina's sassy asides transform "My Give a Damn's Busted" ...
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