Submitted photo Jo Dee Messina, who will release her first album since 2014 this summer, will perform Friday at Packard Music Hall.

Jo Dee Messina is looking forward and backward these days.

“Bridges,” her first album in more than a decade, is scheduled for release June 5. Last month, she celebrated the 30th anniversary of the release of her self-titled debut, which featured her first two top 10 singles, “Heads Carolina, Tails California” and “You’re Not in Kansas Anymore.”

Expect to hear some songs from both, and everything in between, when she performs Friday at Packard Music Hall.

During a telephone interview, Messina said she could remember that feeling of anticipation when she was waiting for people to hear the songs on “Jo Dee Messina” for the first time. And it’s not much different now with “Bridges” completed.

“You’re like a horse waiting in the chute before they open the gate,” Messina said. “You’re excited about what you got and what you’ve been working on, and then, when that came out, I don’t know what I expected. I don’t think I had any expectations. Thirty years ago, I was just happy that, oh my gosh, I have a record done.”

Last month, a video was released featuring congratulations on the anniversary delivered by such performers as Dolly Parton, Lainey Wilson, Carrie Underwood, Ella Langley, Dierks Bentley, Kelly Clarkson, Cole Swindell and many others. Several of the younger artists praised Messina for the influence she had on them.

“That was definitely beyond anything I had imagined,” she said. ”

I was just living life, got your head down, doing your thing. I’d never even thought of being an influence to someone else. I couldn’t watch the whole thing without crying.”

That album launched a career that included 16 top 40 hits and nine No. 1s and led to ACM, CMA and Billboard Music honors as well as two Grammy nominations.

There have been a few singles in the last decade, but Messina hasn’t released a full album since 2014’s “Me.”

She might not have been making records, but Messina said she never stopped writing songs.

“I have been doing a lot of sessions with people, and folks just kept encouraging me and (saying), ‘You need to make a new record. You need to record this,'” she said. “So we put a bunch of songs together that I’ve been writing over the last year, geared up to get an album released and then hit the studio.”

Messina wrote or co-wrote all but one song on “Bridges.” The lead single, “Some Bridges,” was released in March, and “Don’t Let Them Hide Your Beautiful” dropped earlier this month.

“Some Bridges” isn’t a title track. The album title refers to what links the different seasons, the ups and downs, in one’s life. The song is about those bridges Messina hopes to never cross again as she sings, “Some bridges are meant to build, but some bridges are meant to burn.”

“This bridge (the album title) is the gap between then and now,” she said. “We want this one still standing.”

Messina said she was too close to all the songs, so she left it up to the marketing team to pick which songs should be singles and what order they should be released.

She’s been more active embracing social media as a way to get the word out about her new music.

“I love doing the dances because they’re so fun on Tik Tok,” she said “We try to give a shout out to the fans. I like to encourage everyone to support one another and be positive to one another. That’s a whole new aspect (of promotion), but I try to make it enjoyable.”

If you go …

WHO: Jo Dee Messina

WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Friday

WHERE: Packard Music Hall, 1703 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren

HOW MUCH: Tickets range from $59 to $75 and are available through Ticketmaster.