Article: Speaking with Jo Dee Messina

CHICAGO COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Featuring: Glenn Campbell, Yonder Mountain String Band (3 p.m. Saturday); SheDaisy, Phil Vassar, Jo Dee Messina (2 p.m. Sunday)

- Petrillo Music Shell, Grant Park

- Free

- www.tasteofchicago.us

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There's one perfect word to describe country singer Jo Dee Messina, and that would be spitfire. She laughs, but readily agrees. "Yeah, I'm the wild girlfriend you can sit down with and chat and who won't spoonfeed you any [bull]. People are always telling me that that's what they like about me the most. That's OK by me," Messina says. The singer with the fiery voice headlines the Chicago Country Music Festival on Sunday night.

Q. So what's the latest ...

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