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David Nail The Sound Of A Million Dreams Only $5 on Amazon!

Country Girl — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:15:15 +0000

What a great Valentine’s Day present! David Nail’s digital album is priced at only $5 for the month of February at AmazonMP3.com.

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David Nail KNOWS The Sound of A Million Dreams

Country Girl — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:30:05 +0000

Taking 48 weeks to get to the top of Billboard and Mediabase’s country charts might have set a record for David Nail’s first #1, but it also embodied the truth of the title track to his critically-lauded The Sound of a Million Dreams. With that in mind – and the fact the song captures the truth of anyone who’s ever listened to the radio at a critical moment in their life – “The Sound of A Million Dreams” has been selected as the follow-up single to the Kennett, Missourian’s chart-topper. As USA Today proclaimed, “Listen… and let your dreams run wild.”

“That song is just so powerful to me,” Nail says. “There are so many songs in my life. The moment I hear the first couple notes of the introduction, I’m right back there… feeling the night or the sun, my pulse, seeing whomever I was with… and obviously whatever I was feeling, too.”

“Songs hold life in them. You never forget the little things as long as you can hear that song – and the more I meet people at the shows, the more I find out just about everybody else is exactly the same way. It’s one of those things we all have in common.”

The song, which celebrates the thrill of coming of age and staking one’s claim frozen in the music that was playing on the radio, also represents the way music has realized the band director’s son’s wildest fantasies over the past year. Nominated for a Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance and an Academy of Country Music Single of the Year Award for “Red Light,” the former jock also got to sing “God Bless America” at the 7th game of the World Series, where his beloved Cardinals took home the title.

Written by Scooter Carusoe (“Anything But Mine,” “Better As A Memory”) and Phil Vassar (“I’m Alright,” “Just Another Day In Paradise”), “The Sound of A Million Dreams” is about a girl, but it’s also about being a young buck ready to stake his claim, getting out in the world and coming home with his tail between his legs. Just as importantly, it’s a celebration of the lesson that unconditional love abides, even when life implodes – and that adds potency beyond the obvious.

“I won’t say I’ve lived every bit of that song,” says the man who co-wrote “Let It Rain” with Jonathan Singleton, “but I will say that there aren’t very many songs that suit me as much as this one does. It’s everything I believe – and it’s also everything most people go through on their way to figuring out how to live in this world.”

“And especially, it’s about how the songs can hold you together in the doubt… those places where it’s all blowing up around you. To be able to go back and remember, vividly, how the good times feel, well, for me, that was often enough to carry on.”

Nail, called “Stunning” by Billboard and hailed by The Washington Post as “country’s most limber and soulful (singer) this side of Ronnie Dunn,” will carry on his musically dynamic live shows in the months to come. Fresh off a sold-out-and-beyond run in the Midwest, he heads to Florida this weekend, then Texas, Arizona and onto California.

Siri Says – Vote For David Nail for ACM New Artist of the Year

Country Girl — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:30:05 +0000

Check out David Nail’s for your consideration video for the ACM New Artist Award. VERY FUNNY! Who has your vote this year?

First round fan voting for New Artist of the Year has already begun at www.VoteACM.com and www.GACTV.com/ACM. Voting will close on Monday, Jan. 30th at Noon ET. The final three nominees will be announced in February and will move on to compete for ACM New Artist of the Year. Final round voting for the New Artist category will begin at VoteACM.com on Monday, March 19th and will close on April 1st, with the winner being announced live during the 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards broadcast on CBS on Sunday, April 1st at 8p ET/PT.

VIDEO- Blake Shelton Invites David Nail to ‘Let It Rain’ in St. Louis

TawnyTucker — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:45:34 +0000

This past weekend, Blake Shelton was playing a gig in St. Louis…It just so happens that David Nail was visiting his home state and decided to catch Blake’s show. Well, Blake took it upon himself to invite David on stage to perform the no. 1 song in the country, “Let It Rain.”

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Vote for Your Favorite Top New Artist for ACMs!

TawnyTucker — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:00:11 +0000

The Academy of Country Music and Great American Country (GAC) announced today that for the fourth consecutive year, the newcomer category for the 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards — New Artist of the Year—will be opened up to interactive fan voting beginning Monday, January 16th.

The Academy of Country Music combined all newcomer categories into a single combined, overall category for New Artist of the Year. The New Artist of the Year award absorbs all newcomer categories including New Male Vocalist, New Female Vocalist, New Vocal Duo, New Vocal Group, New Solo Vocalist and New Vocal Duo or Group categories from past years, and the winner will be revealed on the LIVE telecast at the 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards. The show will be broadcast from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 8:00 PM live ET/delayed PT on CBS.

The top 8 artists from the first round of ACM professional voting are considered semi-finalists and will compete via the GAC fan vote at GACtv.com/ACM, combined with the ACM professional membership vote, to determine the final 3 nominees for the Award. The final 3 nominees will compete for the trophy, with a combined fan and professional membership vote to determine the winner.

NEW ARITST OF THE YEAR semi-finalists are: Brantley Gilbert, Hunter Hayes, JT Hodges, David Nail, Jerrod Niemann, Justin Moore, Scotty McCreery, and Thompson Square

First round fan voting for New Artist of the Year will begin at www.VoteACM.com and www.GACTV.com/ACM on Monday, Jan. 16th at 9 a.m. ET, and will close on Monday, Jan. 30th at Noon ET. The final three nominees will be announced in February and will move on to compete for ACM New Artist of the Year. Final round voting for the New Artist category will begin at VoteACM.com on Monday, March 19th and will close on April 1st, with the winner being announced live during the 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards broadcast on CBS on Sunday, April 1st at 8p ET/PT.

Who will you vote for??

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David Nail’s Stripped Down Performance for Ladies Home Journal

Country Girl — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:45:40 +0000

After occupying the country radio charts for a marathon 48-week stint, David Nail has finally been rewarded with his first, well-deserved number-one song: “Let It Rain,” the first single off of his The Sound of a Million Dreams CD. Now that he’s top of the heap, though, don’t expect him to lose the perspective he’s been given on his rise to that position.

David tells Ladies Home Journal “There have been a lot of times over the course of my career that it didn’t look like I’d be able to make a record, much less have two out and get to travel the country and tour with people,” the Missouri told me on a recent visit to the Journal. “My short-term and long-term goals are always one in the same. I hope to do something today that allows me a tomorrow. I hope to do something this year that allows me another year. I do not take things for granted.”

Case in point was his reaction to his Grammy nod last year for his vocals on “Turning Home,” off of 2009’s I’m About to Come Alive.

“I can’t remember anything in my life being more unexpected,” Nail says of the moment he got the call about his nomination in the Best Male Country Vocal category. “It was just a whirlwind. I remember literally dropping to my knees and just being overcome with surprise and emotion. I kind of teared up a little bit, went and hugged my wife and said, ‘Baby, I’ve spent a long time trying to get people to like what I do. And evidently the people in this town like what I do.’ ”

Check out David’s performance of three stripped-down songs for the Ladies Home Journal staff. You can read the rest of the interview here.

David Nail’s “Let It Rain” Becomes His 1st #1

Country Girl — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:30:08 +0000

David Nail released “Let It Rain” 48 weeks ago as the lead single from his much anticipated Sound of A Million Dreams. Though the climb was slow, he and MCA Nashville, his label, never lost faith in the song that celebrated the potency of consequences and owning what you’ve done.

Their perseverance has paid off. “Let It Rain” climbed to the top of the Country Singles charts. “Let It Rain” gives the Kennett, Missourian his first #1 single in a career marked by a Grammy nomination (Best Country Vocal Performance, Male for “Turning Home”) and an Academy of Country Music nomination (Top Country Single for “Red Light”).

“When you’re 25 weeks in and you believe in a song, but you’re stuck in the middle of the chart, it’s hard to think you’re gonna get there,” says the somewhat reticent vocalist, “and yet, you can’t think that it won’t go all the way. I am a very blessed and lucky man… because not only did my label never give up on me, but so many people at country radio hung in there with us, too.

It’s been a long road, but – well, we’re here, and it feels good.”