David Nail is a relatively new voice in contemporary country music, and he's determined. Despite the disappointment of his first album going unreleased because of a label shakeup that had nothing to do with him, he took some time out to rethink his priorities and came right back. He issued the title track of this set as a single back in 2008 to test the waters and then dove in to record a contemporary country record that stands out for a number of reasons. For starters, even though it appears on MCA Nashville, it doesn't sound like the cookie-cutter mold that most albums coming from Music City do these days -- like warmed-over 1970s rock with fiddles and banjos in specific places in songs to make them sound "country." Nail and producers Frank Liddell and Mike Wrucke (who is a killer guitar player, too) have assembled a solid set of 11 tunes with an incredible cast of musicians, some of whom aren't normally associated with the genre: legendary Los Angeles session guitarist Waddy Wachtel and keyboard wizard Chuck Leavell, to name two. And bassist Glenn Worf (among others) may be Nash Vegas fixture, but he's also played on a load of albums by the likes of Mark Knopfler, Bonnie Bramlett, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Joan Baez. But it's the songs that make I'm About to Come Alive notable. This group of songwriters seems to have written for this particular singer, and have overwritten nothing.

1		Mississippi
2		I'm About To Come Alive
3		Red Light
4		Again
5		Clouds
6		Summer Job Days
7		Strangers On A Train
8		Looking For A Good Time
9		This Time Around
10		Turning Home
11		Missouri
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