Thirty minutes before Jo Dee Messina’s sold-out show in Layton, Utah, several fans lined up for a special meet-and-greet to chat, take pictures and get autographs.

Instead of resting up backstage, or saving her voice for the show, the country music star smiled and laughed with fans as she signed a guitar, talked about her assistant’s love for Swig and even performed an impromptu duet of Carole King’s “You’ve Got a Friend” with singer Alex Boye.

The artist behind hits like “Heads Carolina, Tails California” and “Bye Bye” has been to Utah a number of times throughout her career — including to film two episodes of “Touched By an Angel.”

“We love Utah. We have a huge fanbase here, and it’s always a blast,” Messina told the Deseret News shortly before her July 31 show at The Kenley Amphithea

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