I'm About To Come Alive

Product Description 2009 debut album from Country vocalist. David Nail grew up with music all around him in Kennett, Missouri. His father was the high school's band director and his home boasted a huge record collection, everything from Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash to the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. It wasn't until David discovered Country music at a high school talent show, did songwriting or a career in music become fascinating to him. David's music successfully bridges the gap between traditional Country and the soulful stylings of Lionel Richie and Ray Charles. Hard knocks and heartache, good times and bad, small towns and big cities: it's all in his music. David wrote five of the 11 tracks on the album; 'Summer Job Days' was co-written by Rascal Flatts' Gary LeVox, 'Turning Home' was co-written by and for Kenny Chesney and 'Strangers On A Train' features harmony vocals by Miranda Lambert. From the Artist "MISSISSIPPI" (Scooter Carusoe/Dan Colehour/Chuck Leavell) I found `Mississippi' when we were starting the entire process. Actually, I was being nosy one day at my publisher's office and was going through every song in the entire catalog, which was about 5,000 to 6,000 songs. I saw the title and for some reason it just intrigued me. I listened to it and it was this really dirty piano vocal. I just loved it. The movie Ray had just come out and since I've always been really into him, the first thought that occurred to me, was, `wow this sounds like something you could just picture Ray Charles singing.' So, naturally, me being a Ray Charles fan and a huge soul/R&B guy, it was just an obvious choice. I later found out it had actually been written for a possible Ray Charles album. It's one of my favorite songs on the record. "I'M ABOUT TO COME ALIVE" (Pat Monahan/Jimmy Stafford/Scott Underwood/Charlie Colin/Rob Hotchkiss/Clint Bennett) I've been singing this song for probably five or six years. Never at any moment did I think that I'd have an opportunity to cut it for this record. It's just been that song that has been a constant in my career. For the longest time people just assumed it was one of my songs or a song that I had written. Little did they know that it was actually a cover of one of my favorite groups Train. It was the last cut on their My Private Nation record. It had a very strong, personal meaning to me at the time and over the ye