David Nail

The girl that I guess I dated, or I guess the relationship I was in the longest before my wife, was that particular girl. I don’t really sugarcoat it. That’s her name. I spell it the same way in the lyric sheets. She’s actually from south Georgia.

If you know anything about the songs I write, most of the time, if I write them with people, they have a tendency to encourage me to maybe not make it so exact. But I think deep down I knew that if I was up on stage singing “southern Indiana” when I knew it wasn’t southern Indiana, it would bother me.

It was the end of November. We were at my parents’ house in Missouri, and we had dated on and off for about three years. We had recently broken up, and I had spent a lot of time trying to get her back. I finally got her back, and I was going through a really dark depression and kind of always would say in my prayers: “God, when I finally get my shit together, give me one more chance with her.” Just so I can have a clear conscience that wasn’t my issues that was ‘causing our issues. And I had another opportunity and quickly realized that it wasn’t just me, but at the same time having fought so hard to get her back.

I had a really hard time coming to grips with the fact that, “Okay, you wasted so much time and energy trying to get her back and you’re just going to break up with her again.” So that was more or less a song where I realized that it was over and I was kind of hoping that she would to and she would do the dirty work for me. And I realized I guess over the Thanksgiving holidays at the end of that month that that wasn’t going to be the case. That she was in for good, and there’s no telling how bad I could’ve treated her or how many mistakes I would have made, she was just going to tolerate it. I think at the end of December, a month later, I finally realized that I was going to have to take the initiative and did. Like I said, I don’t think you write a song like that… I joke all the time saying that I hope she hears it everyday for the rest of her life but I really don’t mean that. At least, most of the time I don’t mean it.

[Laughter]

So when did you write it?

It was one of those subconscious things where I sat down. I didn’t know what the hell was about to come out, and it just did. And it’s one of those things when you read it back you’re like, “Holy crap. What the hell? I’m a jerk!” It was one of those cool things, I never in a million years thought anybody was going to play it, or that I was going to record it. When I met Frank Liddell he asked me right off the bat, “Do you have any songs?” And I guess just subconsciously I felt that, writer-wise, it was one of the strongest ones and so I played it and he just said, “Man, that’s incredible!” And it was one of the first five things we cut. And then I think as you get away from the situation and can kind of look at it as a piece of art, and you’re not so close to the situation, it’s easier to play it. But I guarantee you not a time goes by that I sing it that I don’t remember what it was like the first time that I played it.

Are most of your songs autobiographical?

People always say that about the songs I write. I just wrote a song with Jonathon Singleton who wrote “Red Light” and played the demo for my manager and he was like, “Man, I can totally hear you in there. I love this not just because Singleton has wrote it and he’s on fire writing hits.” I think it’s just because I really don’t know how to sugarcoat things and I have no qualms just coming out and calling myself out and calling the situation out. Ryan Adams is a huge hero of mine, and I guarantee you Ryan Adams never stopped and said, “Hmm, I wonder if anyone is going to be offended by this!”

http://www.americansongwriter.com/2010/02/david-nail/

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David Nail: Making the Most of A Second Chance

It’s not uncommon for an artist to not find commercial success with their first record deal, only to grab the spotlight down the road with another label. That happens more often than you might think. Take Kenny Chesney, for instance. He recorded for southern rock label Capricorn back in the early ’90s, but it was his signing with BNA in 1995 that led to him become the superstar that he is today. While that scenario happens sometimes in the music business, it’s rare that you find an artist be signed to a label, fail to catch on with radio, and be dropped from the label—only to find success six years later with the same company.

Such is the case of David Nail. The singer was on Mercury Records’ roster in the early 2000s, and developed quite a following inside Music City thanks to his vocal approach. In spite of that, changes at Mercury resulted in him getting lost in the corporate shuffle, and he was dropped from the label. Flash forward six years later, and Nail can be heard on the airwaves as of late with his first top ten single, “Red Light,” from his 2009 album I’m About To Come Alive, which has been heralded by many as one of the best country albums of the year. If you look at the label imprint on the disc, you will see the album credited to MCA Nashville. However, MCA and Mercury—while different labels with different promotional and publicity teams—all flow from the same business stream at Universal, and the label head, Luke Lewis, is the same exec that signed (and dropped) Nail from the Mercury roster years earlier. LimeWire Music Blog had a chance to talk with Nail as he was driving through Iowa recently about returning to the same company he was with—albeit with much more success.

“I kept a lot of relationships there throughout the years,” Nail says, admitting that his not connecting with the public earlier might not have been all the label’s fault. “The first deal I got there when I was 20 or 21 years old, I definitely made some mistakes back then, and probably went about some things the wrong way. But, there were some things that to a large deal, were out of my control. I think that seven years down the road—where I had matured, and maybe some people had some time, and space to look back and see that there wasn’t any hard core reason as to why something didn’t work out.”

At the end of the day, Lewis’s faith in Nail’s ability was still there. “Obviously, they still felt that I was talented and had something to offer.”

Getting another chance with Universal was as important to Nail as finding another label. “To be honest with you, I don’t know if I had even pursued this if I had not gone back there. I always reference it with this analogy,” he says. “Going to another label and having any kind of success whatsoever would be like going to the grocery store with your stepmom, and you’re in the cereal aisle. You look down it, and there’s your real mom. You’re kind of caught in between. You want to run down, and jump into your real mom’s arms, but you can’t. You don’t want to offend your stepmom, and you don’t want her to think you’re unappreciative of her efforts and her time and her love. You can’t really react the way you want to. I definitely wanted to be back there, and I can’t fathom it. I have several friends at other labels, and not to say that they would want to sign me to a record deal, but I can’t even fathom it. Universal is a family, and it was that way when I was younger, and it remains that way today.”

The label released the title track of the album to mediocre success, but it was the second single, “Red Light,” that finally gave him his first top 10 on the country singles chart. It was something that Nail had long waited for, even though with the slow climb that most singles take up the charts these days, it was a case of taking it week-by-week.

“It was one of those things that definitely took forever, but at the same time, it got to a point that I could sense that it was breaking through because it seemed like we were getting busier and busier. A wise person told me when I first moved to town that you’re only as successful as your schedule. If you are busy, then chances are that you’re doing well, and if you’re not—you ought to start looking around.” Fortunately for Nail, the schedule was piling up.

“I noticed that we were starting to get busy, and it’s impossible not to notice the more familiar the crowd is, and I had always heard when you find that one song, that you can tell by the people in the crowd.” Social networking also tipped him off to the song’s success. “It’s also entertaining and flattering when someone e-mails me a new link of someone on YouTube. You get on there, and I can’t look at them because there’s so many. I think that when someone takes enough time to turn on a camera, and put it on the web for all the world to see. I think your song has made an impact.”

While there are many factors in Nail’s surge as an artist, one that he considers to be very important is his development as a songwriter. He had a hand in writing five of the songs on I’m About To Come Alive, and he said that his writing helped him through a great deal of personal and professional strife that he had endured the past few years. “There’s no way to sugar-coat it. I was in a bad way. I had a lot of things unravel, and had been in denial for a couple of years on how exactly it came to be, and so it seemed like one day I woke up, and I had all of these issues. I wasn’t quite sure exactly of how it got to that point.”

Looking inside himself, he began to write some of more personal work. “When you start writing things, and you’re forced to read them back, and ask yourself, ‘Wow, this just came out of me. I’m obviously dealing with this. There’s something on my mind.’ You know, short of going to a psychiatrist….that’s what counsels you because you’re able to deal with what you’re feeling. It’s not only ‘Let me get this off my chest, but I don’t like the sound of this. How can I make some changes and go about trying to find a new me, or going back to the old me. So I did, man. I can’t tell you how many songs I played for people, or people got hold of songs and they would come up and just hug me and say ‘I love you man, Be happy. Write something happy.’ Those songs might very well see the light of day at some point. I always say that someday I’m going to come out with a record of all that stuff. I may start a whole new grunge area of country—that Seattle sound with all that depressing stuff. That definitely got me through it!”

The album is a perfect showcase for his soulful yet raw singing voice. One of the standout tracks is “Mississippi,” which was written for the late Ray Charles. “One of the guys who wrote the song, Scooter Carusoe, is a publisher as well, and he had caught wind that Ray Charles was either in town, or coming to town to make a record, and he had been writing on the side, but no one ever knew that he wrote. I think that one afternoon, he just kind of stayed and tried to create something Ray Charles-esque.” Nail says he heard the song at the right time. “The ironic thing about it when I found that song, it was coming off the heels of Ray the movie coming out, so it was fresh in my mind. I think with that movie, I realized my love of the piano. My dad was a band director, and he played piano a ton, and it was always one of my favorite instruments. When Frank Liddell and I sat down, and he asked me ‘How do you want to go about making this record?’ I said I really wanted piano to be a key and for it to be built around that. When we went to find songs, ‘Mississippi’ was kind of right in that wheel house.”

Another highlight on the album is the infectious “Summer Job Days.” For Nail, the song brings to mind one of his more recent job—being a baseball coach. In 2005 and 2006, the singer helped out coaching the Twitty City Knights, a group of Nashville’s best young baseball talent. That period also helped him through the rough patches.

“I was in that bad time of my life, and one of my buddies, who’s a high school coach—I think jokingly said something about working out with these kids. I’ve got a group of 17-year-old kids that are really good. You can just come out and take batting practice. The competitor in me heard the term ‘batting practice,’ and I was about 27-years-old, and I said, ‘You know, I’m going to go out there and see just how much I have lost as an athlete. So I went out there, and I think some of the kids had googled me and found my MySpace page, and knew I sang, and knew I had a record out. They were interested in the fact that I sang, and I think they kind of dug what I was doing. I’ve always said that all athletes want to be entertainers, and entertainers want to be athletes. It’s kind of ironic that I have gotten to do both. I played in college for a semester, and could have continued in college if I hadn’t wanted to have gone the music route. It’s definitely a blessing to have done the coaching thing. It really did change my life. To be around those kids, I’ve told people…I was a coach, but they coached me. I was the one who definitely got more out of it.”

So, how much had he lost athletically?

“Well, let’s just say it took a lot longer to get everything back than I had hoped,” he says with a laugh. “I worked out with a group of kids last year, and I swung and missed on the first six. I had to remind myself that I was 30-years-old. My mind knew what to do, but my body was a little bit slower. I had to speed things up a little bit.”

Whether it be uptempo crowd-pleasers or romantic love ballads, his batting average is perfect on I’m About To Come Alive. Of the slower tunes, the shining moment is the moody “Strangers On A Train,” which features some sizzling harmony from Miranda Lambert. While listening to the song, you have your own idea of the characters in this song, and their chance encounter, Nail has done his job. “The imagery of this song is so vivid that you can just picture what it would look and feel like as a video.”

While he probably wouldn’t have included the bumps in the road as part of his musical story, Nail knows that he wouldn’t be as grateful for his success today had he not gone through them, and he’s aware that everything he has gone through has made him the artist he is today. “They’re all aspects of my life,” he says, adding that the story is far from finished. “I’m still growing as both a person and artist, and hopefully will continue getting better in regards to both.”

http://blog.limewire.com/posts/35455-david-nail-making-the-most-of-a-second-chance/

David Nail Hits Success with new “Red Light”

By Cindy Watts

The Tennessean

David Nail could be the poster boy for second chances. The country singer, who recently scored his first Billboard Top 10 country song with “Red Light”, moved to Nashville twice before he worked up the nerve to stay. He’s currently on his second record deal with Universal Music Group, and “Red Light” was the second single off his debut album I’m About To Come Alive. “The (record label executives) just kept saying, ‘You gotta be patient with us and we will be patient with you, and we will find the right song.’” Nail said. “It would have been easy for them to turn their back on me and say, ‘We tried again, but it didn’t work.’” “Red Light” turned out to be Nail’s right song and now the singer is worried about following it up. “It’s nerve-racking because you winder if you have (another song) that will move a mountain the way ‘Red Light’ has,” Nail said. “But at the end of the day, you have to trust your instincts that you made a great record of great songs. Nail hopes his new single “Turning Home,” will be another push for his career. Kenny Chesney and Scooter Carusoe wrote the song with Chesney in mind to sing it. When the megastar decided not to record “Turning Home,” Nail scooped it up. “I just new that this was that song that I had been searching for, probably the entire time that I’d been in Nashville,” Nail said. Being from a small town in southeast Missouri, all the imagery in the song was something that I could really relate to. I can close my eyes and be back in that small town…Friday night football game…I just love it.”

But Nail didn’t always love his small town of Kennett, MO. In high school, the singer wanted to get as far away from Kennett as he could. Most teens his age, Nail said, were expected to participate in sports programs and attend area colleges, but those prospects didn’t interest him. “There were very people that thought dropping out of college and going to pursue this crap-shoot (of a career in music) was a good idea,” he said. “My parents supported that, and my choir director that I grew up with encouraged me. Now in my old age I wish that I had a degree just so I could say I had one. My wife rubs that in every other day that she’s the one with the college education in the family.” Nail moved to Nashville when he was 18, but quickly found that he wasn’t fond of life without his mom “to make cereal in the morning”. He moved back to Nashville a second time two years later, and landed a deal with Mercury Records in eight months. He recorded a self-titled CD that never saw a release, and his first single, “Memphis,” struggled to No. 52 on Billboard’s country singles charts. Nail lost his record deal.

“I thought, ‘Well, hey, this is it,’” Nail said. “I thought, ‘Everything will take care of itself, and in 10 years I’ll be Garth Brooks.’ I don’t think it was until I was 25 and had fallen into a pretty dark depression that I realized, ‘Wow, I don’t have a deal any more, and I’m 25 years old and I’m already a has-been.’” Nail relied on the support of his friends to pull him out of depression, and decided he would take “one more crack at it.” He sat down and made a list of things that had to happen-like getting back in shape-and a list of people with whom he wanted to work. Six months later, 95 percent of the people on his list, Nail said, were already a part of his team. “It was weird how all that snowballed,” he said. “We just slowly started to figure out what we wanted to do, what kind of artist I wanted to be, and what kind of record I wanted to make.” Nail’s manager and producer fronted the money for him to record the first half of this record. When it was finished, they pitched the songs to his old label group, UNIVERSAL Music Group. The company picked up the project. “We saw he’d grown up, matured as an artist and that his desire for it was still there,” said Brian Wright, vice president of A&R at UMG Nashville. “He brought us great music, and it was a no-brainer.” But Nail didn’t find instant acceptance. The first single-I’m About To Come Alive’s title track- failed, and mo0re than a year passed before “Red Light” mad Nail a fan favorite on country radio. And now with a career full of speedy retreats and near misses, the singer is awed and humbled by his 10-year overnight success. “I went to New York four times in the last year” he said. “Where I grew up, New York was in the movies and television shows. It didn’t seem like a real place. So I walk around those streets and think about my friends and my parents who have never been, and I think about all the opportunities just this small amount of success has brought. I wondered if this was ever going to happen.”

David Nail - "Turning Home"

By: Bobby Peacock

Well, now, this is an interesting combination. A co-write between Kenny Chesney and Scooter Carusoe (who wrote Chesney's "Anything but Mine" and "Better as a Memory," two of my favorite songs of his), and it's recorded by relative newcomer David Nail. Fresh off his breakthrough hit "Red Light" (which, after its 45-week run, I still have yet to grow tired of), Nail needs another great song to back it up.

Why is it a great song? Well, ignore the name Kenny Chesney if that's detracting you. This is more "I Go Back" and less "Out Last Night." It opens with evocative details about a hometown: storefronts, gas pumps, street lights, and then progresses into hometown bleachers, feet hanging off tailgates, gym floors, high school graduation, et cetera. While the specifics of each are only hinted at, there's still enough present to paint a convincing picture and give the feeling that Nail is really sharing his memories. While the song is a bit overproduced (it could easily have done without the strings), Nail delivers the song powerfully and soulfully, going full-throttle in particular on the chorus but never over-singing. It is definitely a better fit for his voice than for Chesney's flat, narrow range.

Perhaps the only thing that would keep this song from being a big hit is its length. Not too many newcomers have made themselves known with five-minute songs [Editor's note: The radio edit is 4:15]. Even so, it's very well-written and well-sung, it's distinctive, and at the same time, it's a fairly common country song topic. Compounded with the recent success of "Red Light," there's no way "Turning Home" can miss.

You can support David Nail by purchasing this single at Amazon | iTunes.

http://www.roughstock.com/blog/david-nail-turning-home-

David Nail Concert Review: Up-And-Coming Superstar

Submitted on 01.11.2010 - 08:07:19 pm by FanBolt

When up-and-coming country star David Nail began his career nearly ten years ago, the last place he thought he'd be was the Dean Lesher Theater in Walnut Creek standing next to St.. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa. That's exactly where he found himself Saturday night as Nail performed a short set for La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation benefit show. The 19th annual Stars To The Rescue was an event to remember, as Jon Anderson from Yes as well as comedian Chas Elstner and many others joined forces to raise money for La Russa's foundation which helps save the lives of abandoned dogs and cats as well as provide a no kill shelter and dozens of community outreach programs.

Nail' s acoustic performance was a high point mid way through the 3 hour show. Just seconds after Nail walked on stage shouts of "Red Light," could be heard. The request for Nail's hit song which is currently in heavy rotation on country radio was met with a smile from the singer. "I'm sure we'll get to that one," he said.

As Nail's set continued it was obvious the young singer was nervous. After the second song he acknowledged it.

"Tony La Russa just introduced me. That's a big deal for a Cardinals fan." There was a small delay midway through the set when the house band was brought on stage. The silent audience patiently waited as the band settled in. Nail slowly walked up to the mic and said "Willie McGee was my favorite Cardinal." The audience roared in laughter and Nail had accomplished the task of winning the crowd over.

Nail's live set is just as intriguing as his recorded material. With a smooth voice and delivery the country singer has a hint of blues in his music. Judging by the reaction of every female in the audience, Nail could have the ability to cross over to pop. For now he sticks with country and as the set came to an end with "I'm About To Come Alive," the audience gave him a standing ovation. La Russa met him center stage

"We have a tradition at these ARF events of getting up-and-coming country superstars. We've had Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum and now David Nail." Of all the accolades and praise Nail has gotten over the last few years it seems likely La Russa's words meant the most.


http://www.fanbolt.com/headline/5794/David_Nail_Concert_Review:_Up-And-Coming_Superstar

Road Trips, Cincy Reds, Amber Williams, Ward's Phone, Top 10

Top Ten Must Haves for summer 09
#1 - Diesel Jeans
#2 - G Star Shirts
#3 - 70’s style cream/white loafers
#4 - Organic Tea Tree Shampoos and Conditioners
#5 – Kiehl’s All-Purpose Face Moisturizer
#6 – Red Diamond Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon
#7 – Free WI-FI
#8 – Sweet Potatoes
#9 – Sperry Boat Shoes
#10 – Abercrombie Flat Front Shorts
Bonus Tracks – Blake Shelton – Startin’ Fires, The Magic Bullet, Hanes Basic White T-Shirts, U2 – No Line On The Horizon, Randy Rogers Band Trucker Hat, New Era Fitted St. Louis Cardinal Road Cap

In 39 days there will be a Mrs. David Nail and that’s both really exciting, and slightly weird.

US Airways made huge ground with me this morning.  We slept about 4 hours in Cincinnati last night due to a surprise show on the field after the Reds game, and a 6:45am flight to West Palm Beach.  We had an hour layover in Charlotte, and I simply went up to the counter to try and find an empty row to stretch out in to catch up on some sleep.  Let’s just say I’m flying over the east coast of Florida from First Class thanks to the fine gentlemen from US Airways.

Oceans leave me speechless.  I thoroughly hope to have a small place near one someday in my lifetime.

So things are picking up career wise the closer we get to the wedding.  I can’t say how lucky I am to have found someone like Catherine. To steal a line from my favorite Halfway to Hazard song, “You might have just gone crazy, trying to love a music man.”  How ironic I just quoted those guys, cause I’m almost certain they’re on the bill tonight in West Palm.

How about a little randomness?

Ward dropped his phone in a Tin Roof toilet Thursday night, and yes, the worst possible scenario you’re imagining right now was his very story.

The coffee in First Class is very much below average.

Florida has me overly excited.  The seafood I’m about to partake in at Legal’s Seafood tonight has me beyond such.

It’s a shame Kanye West is such a mess; cause the kid is so obviously talented.

I’m going to spend the weekend before my wedding in my favorite city, with 90 percent of my favorite people, and playing a club I’ve waited 5 years to play.

As tired as I am right now, I absolutely have to go to the beach today, even if it’s simply for an hour or so.

The NFL Draft is this afternoon, and this is the first year since I can remember that I won’t be watching.

I want to go fishing today.

There aren’t enough hours in the day for all that I want to do most days.

The water looks breathtaking from the sky this morning.  The weather couldn’t be anymore beautiful.

They say money can’t buy happiness, but if you could live where I’m looking at, I think you’d have a hard time finding ways to get upset.

I wish I’d seen Ray Charles live before he passed.

I’ll be in Austin and San Antonio, Texas next week
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Red Light Road Tours is something I’ve wanted to do for years, and hopefully we’ll be coming to your city sooner rather than later.  If you haven’t heard about it, read the blog titled Red Light Road Tours.  It’s very much the genius of the fine people at UMG.

I’m not going to blog about our journeys thus far just because I want the videos we shoot to be a surprise.

Jesus Walks!!!

Oh, how did I forget?  Some guy from my earlier flight managed to spill his coke all over my leg!  I was even surprised by how calm I managed to stay!  I guess that was the price I paid for being moved to First Class for this flight.
When I saw the ocean for the first time, I was a 21-year-old naïve kid from small town Missouri, and an old friend said he felt like a father watching his 7 or 8-year-old son.  My quote as I stood there with my mouth open wide, “Dude, you could get in a boat and go to Cuba.”

Airplanes baffled me.

I’m going to do something Tuesday morning that will be the coolest thing I’ve done so far, and I will only say it involves a radio station, and probably the most famous radio personality of all-time.

I’m almost on the verge of disowning both of my favorite NFL Teams, the St Louis Rams and Tennessee Titans.  I simply don’t know what they’re thinking again with their NFL Draft Picks.

DJ Moore to the Chicago Bears in the 4th RD will be the steal so far.  It’s either the Chicago Commodores or the Vanderbilt Bears now, I don’t know, you choose!!!

I miss Catherine this afternoon.

I’m thinking we’re going to go see The Soloist tonight starring Jaime Foxx!

Nikki Taylor is on my flight home from Florida with her newborn.  She’s my height, with several, and I mean several tattoos.

I think if you brought a child on board today, you must have gotten a free round trip ticket to anywhere Southwest flies, cause there are about 15 running down the aisle like madmen!!!

I’m sitting by Amber Williams for the second flight this month, once to Vegas for the ACM’s and now home from Ft. Lauderdale!  Amber’s from Missouri as well, and happens to be one of the finest publicists in the country as far as I’m concerned…

K, found out today (Monday afternoon) that there will be a few new Red Light/Road Trips the next few weeks.  Keep glued to my Twitter to stay updated on where I’m heading next.  Till next time, RED LIGHT!!!

Flying, Dallas, JC Penny, Red Light, UCLA Baseball
Well my first flight of 2009 is the worst of my life. The only thing keeping me even remotely calm is the podcast from Kairos Brentwood on my ipod. I was excited to be going to Dallas, but I wasn’t this dang excited. To say this ride is bumpy would be to say I don’t have self-diagnosed A.D.D.

Pardon me while I put my computer up and continue praying!!!

It’s flights like this one that cause me to reflect back on the Hudson River U.S Air landing. I was at the Green Hills YMCA when I noticed several people gathering in front of the TV’s about 40 or 50 feet in front of me. I automatically knew something serious had to have happened, so I quickly ended my run and walked up to see what was going on. I watched most of the television coverage for the next few hours at home, feeling somewhat uneasy knowing I would soon begin flying again. If I ever run across that pilot during any of my future travels, I will give him the biggest hug.

Kings of Leon – Closer

This song is a ballad I suppose, and yet it makes me wish there were 5 miles of open road ahead in which to run.

My teeth hurt a bit today. I’m not sure what that’s about, but they’re definitely more sensitive than normal.

There are about 50 junior high aged girls on my flight headed to Dallas for a cheerleading competition. I leaned over to the lady beside me and said, “This would be pretty nice if I was 15 years younger.” I’m not sure she thought it was funny, but I was simply making conversation.

Ipod isn’t in spellcheck, and neither is spellcheck, which is even more odd to me.

I’m sad to be missing church Sunday. I really enjoy our Pastor in Nashville. I don’t always know what he’s talking about, but he talks in such a calm and passionate way, that I always feel good hearing it.

I’m hungry, and something tells me EJ will have eaten by the time I land.

Blogs are the single fastest way to kill time while flying. Movies are second, and listening to music is a distant third.

Blog is also absent from spellcheck.

When I look across the sky from my exit row window seat, I can’t help but wish there was a way to walk on top of the clouds.

“But before I make my way into the crowd, could I share one last kiss while we’re still in the clouds”

Clouds – David Nail

I wrote that line during one of my genius moments.

I’m about to play some shows in March, and though they’re all acoustic shows as of now, I’m going to have my keyboard player Eric Kinney out with me, and that has me overjoyed.

I listen to “Notion” by Kings of Leon and think of little Ryan Fisher, and thoughts such as these could bring a smile to the devils face.

It looks as if the flight is smoothing out, and it seems as though I’m not the only one who’s been “holding it”.

So I guess Monday we’ll see who wins The Bachelor. I’ve never seen the show until this year, and I suppose this years an exception only because now I’m more or less married. My bet is on Melissa, only because I have some pretty strong sources who tell me this, and also in the preview, it shows him proposing to a brunette, and Molly ain’t no brunette!!!

Some lady is yelling at me that I have to postpone this for a bit, so I’ll check in later….

So it’s Sunday night and I’m flying home from Dallas via Houston. While in Houston I noticed at least four or five college baseball teams. UCLA were at the gate across from me and stood out the most by far. They were all dressed in baby blue Adidas jumpsuits with matching white shoes. I have to say they looked pretty sharp. My curiosity got the best of me, and so I looked up whom they played in Houston, and found there was a tournament at Minute Maid Park where the Astros play. Rice University went unbeaten the article said, so I’m assuming they’re loaded again.

Dallas wore me out. I’m not used to staying out so late these days. Whoever decided 2pm game times were a good idea evidently didn’t realize how long it made the days. I got to see my buddy Marty Turco both days. Marty has a new baby boy who I’d not seen yet, so it was great to see him finally have another man in the house.

Last night EJ and I met up with our good friend Brooke Fendrick (former head of marketing for the Dallas Stars) at the hotel after. Brooke got married this past year, and moved back to Waco, so her being back in Dallas for the night was a pleasant added surprise.

Well I excited to be almost home. I’m going to sleep hard and long tonight. Red Light seems to be doing great. I’m still not paying attention to its existence, other than to talk about finding or recording the song.

Dallas is flashy, and I may have interest in some of the finer luxury’s this world has to offer, but whenever I’m there, I realize I’m still very much a small town kid from southeast Missouri. The other day some guys from the label played a joke on me regarding a possible endorsement with JC Penny, and they were assuming I’d be a bit uneasy do it’s “lack” of premeire clothing. Little did they know that JC Penny is my mother’s favorite store, so I was excited in a way due to the fact that I’d then most likely be able to hook her up.

K, I’m sensing this lady is about to tell me to put my computer up, so I’m not going to give her the chance. Peace out.

Please keep requesting Red Light wherever it is you live!!! Oh and it’s on itunes as well… You guys are awesome!!!