Flowers David Nail

• 1 Skyline 04:07
• 2 The Crown 04:16
• 3 Broken In 03:19
• 4 Time Ran Out 03:15
• 5 Book Of Us 03:26
• 6 I'll Break Yours Too 05:05
• 7 Fare Thee Well 04:27
• 8 She Knows 03:44
• 9 I Bought The Flowers 03:50
• 10 Riverbank 04:00
• Total Runtime 39:29

Info zu Flowers

Acclaimed singer/songwriter David Nail has experienced a season filled with change, growth, grief, and transformation. After a writing session with Anderson East sparked an unexpected creative journey, Nail is releasing the result: a brand-new album titled Flowers. A decade after his last album, Flowers reflects the journey, challenges, and personal transformation that have shaped Nail along the way. Sometimes, the things we wait for take time to bloom, and ten years later, Flowers proves that the wait was truly worth it.

To create the album, David recruited a winning lineup: longtime collaborator and multiple GRAMMY-, CMA-, and ACM-winning singer/songwriter Lori McKenna, along with profound songwriting forces Trent Dabbs and Melissa Fuller. GRAMMY-nominated Anderson East co-wrote and produced the project, enlisting an impressive group of musicians, including pianist Philip Towns, percussionist Darren Dodd, bassists Gregg Garner and Brian Allen, guitarists Shaun Richardson and Weston Stewart, and background vocalists including April Rucker, Fuller, and Dabbs.

Flowers is David’s coming-of-age album, reflecting on his growth as a husband and father as he navigates the grief of losing his mother. The project is deeply personal, with the album dedicated to her and even featuring her handwriting in the title artwork. In creating this album, David has produced what he considers his strongest work to date, even saying that “Riverbank” will be the last song he performs at the end of every show for the rest of his life.

With more than 20 years in the music industry and a reputation as one of country music’s best vocalists, David has remained committed to releasing music that feels authentically true to him, despite industry pressures to chase chart success or commercial trends.

He has consistently released music since departing his major-label home, MCA, in 2017. Five EP projects and a collection of singles over the past decade have helped hone his path, refine his craft, and teach him the ins and outs of the independent journey a true artist travels. A prime example of an artist who lets the music lead, rather than commercial viability, Flowers is the culmination of a decade of living, growth, and creativity.

“Anytime I have put a piece of music out, I have always put a lot of thought into each detail. With the songs, the way they sounded, the way I sang them, even down to the title of the record, the pictures, and the inserts. With this album, it’s probably been the least amount of thought I have put into something. One may think that means I care less about this or that I am winging it, but in reality it’s the most comfortable and confident I have been throughout the process of making a record. There are many reasons for that, but I think the most important and obvious reason is the comfort and confidence I felt with Anderson East. The confidence he shows isn’t egotistical or arrogant; it’s confidence in his abilities, the players he uses, and his own skin. If there is one thing I walked away with, it’s that you let the music speak for itself and try and stay out of the way. I am very proud of this record, but it is also the most comfortable, and at peace I have been on the eve of new music coming out,” said David Nail.

David has steadily been giving fans a taste of the album, releasing “The Crown,” “Fare Thee Well,” “She Knows,” and “Riverbank” in advance, and has received strong praise from critics:

“Soothing, sensuous and soft, this ballad of enduring love lingers long after the final notes echo away. Nail has always been an exquisite country voice. Co-writer McKenna provides gentle harmony on the poetic choruses.” – Robert K. Oermann, Music Row Magazine

“David Nail reminds Nashville why he was regarded as one of the best singers of the 2010s on his new song ‘She Knows.’ It’s a pristine slice of country music balladry that proves the Missouri native hasn’t lost a step.” – Rolling Stone

“In popular music, it’s usually rare to recognize in the moment whether something will be really timeless. Still, every once in a while, when you hear a song, you get the feeling that its impact isn’t confined to a specific era or moment. In the pre-choruses, for example, an accenting piano mimics the exact melody of Nail’s vocal, subtly reinforcing the emotion without overstepping.” – Country Central

“…with his new single ‘The Crown,’ the Missouri native steps into especially cinematic territory, both sonically and emotionally, delivering a sweeping, story-driven track rooted in real life and small-town loyalty.” – All Country News

David Nail, vocals, guitar
Philip Towns, piano, keyboards
Darren Dodd, drums, percussion
Gregg Garner, bass
Brian Allen, bass
Shaun Richardson, guitar
Weston Stewart, guitar
Lori McKenna, backing vocals, vocals („Riverbank“)
Trent Dabbs, backing vocals
Melissa Fuller, backing vocals
April Rucker, backing vocals

David Nail
During the making of his fourth MCA Nashville album, David Nail underwent a transformation – and so did his music. Fighter is the most vulnerable, personal record the Missouri native has ever made, and it signals the beginning of a new phase in his career.”

“Six months ago, people would ask me about the record and I would jokingly say ‘It’s my love-making record,’” Nail explains. “But what it meant to me then and what it means to me now are completely different. … Having been a father for about five months, it definitely changes the dynamic of things.” Following the birth of he and wife Catherine’s long-hoped-for children (twins born in December 2015), the singer-songwriter found his world turned upside down. The mark he wanted to leave and things he wanted to say had changed, and despite an early version of Fighter being already finished, he decided to record four new songs, completely changing the project’s tone.

In short, Nail decided to get real in a way he never would have allowed himself before. Already known for powerful, emotionally-charged vocals, he took the same approach to choosing Fighter’s 11 tracks (seven of which were written or co-written by Nail himself), celebrating life’s victories but also exposing the knock-downs he’s endured – and it wasn’t always flattering.

“[I was] like, ‘Am I ready to sing this? Am I ready to tell this story?” Nail says. “[But] they come from a genuine place that you can kind of say, ‘Okay, I’ve said that. I’m at peace with that.’ I think that’s what this record is.”

Writing and singing in courageous personal detail, Nail confronted some of his deepest troubles, revealing the clarity he’s achieved about his hometown, the true struggle depression caused in his marriage, the answered-prayer of his children’s birth and the things he never told his own father.

Meanwhile, producer Frank Liddell (who also guided Nail’s first three albums, I’m About to Come Alive, The Sound of a Million Dreams and I’m a Fire) made sure Fighter’s musical tone was just as authentic, backing Nail’s volcanic vocals with a melting pot of Mississippi-delta sounds — a mix of classic-country balladry and sweaty Memphis soul, with touches of in-the-moment modernity sprinkled throughout.

“I grew up listening to all this music that my father listened to,” says Nail. “A lot of it was classic, huge songs and artists from the ‘60s and ‘70s – and even the ‘80s – so I think there’s always part of me that just falls toward that type of sound, rather than fighting it and trying to say ‘Whoa! No-no-no, we need to stay 2016.’”

Big-name collaborations abound, with Nail inviting Vince Gill, Brothers Osborne, Lori McKenna and Logan Brill to help tell his story, as well as Bear and Bo Rinehart of NEEDTOBREATE.

“When I’m making a record I selfishly want to push my buttons so I try to approach it as my swan song, it could be the last piece of music I make. I want to fulfill some life goals in the process and one of my biggest influences in the world is Vince Gill so I’m thankful he said yes”

Brothers Osborne kick the project off in star-crossed revelry on “Good at Tonight,” McKenna joins “Home” to quietly uncover Nail’s love/hate relationship with his hometown, Gill adds stunning harmony vocals to the country-soul “I Won’t Let You Go” – a promise to David’s wife Catherine – and the Rineharts help close the album in tender admiration with “Old Man’s Symphony,” an overdue thank-you note to Nail’s dad.

Along the way, he toasts to the passion of youth in the upbeat hit “Night’s On Fire,” pledges romantic relief in the raw Chris Stapleton co-write “Ease Your Pain,” delivers a desperate double entendre in the indie-rocking “Lie With Me” and crafts a loving, rock-a-bye origin story for his new family in “Babies” – an instant classic.

Then there’s the project’s title track, “Fighter,” a heartfelt ‘80s-country throwback ripped from Nail’s real life that holds his wife up as an unshakable supporter – even when he was at his worst. “’Fighter’ is about as honest as I’ve ever been in a song,” Nail admits. “I mean, when you’re quoting your wife saying things that are not pleasant [about you], you know it was our story. … But it also, I think, tells the story of me.”

Nail and Catherine have had to fight their whole lives, he explains – for his career, for their marriage, to battle back inner demons and to conceive their beautiful kids – but their ultimate success in those battles has led them to a better place. And it also gave the album a mission.

Fighter is more than a bookmark in Nail’s life and career – it’s a period on the final sentence of a difficult chapter. Penned during dark times that have given way to a new sunrise, these are some of the most meaningful and personal songs he’s ever recorded. And now that they exist for all to hear, he can finally move on.

“I feel like I’ve told the main aspects of my career, and my life, up to this point,” he explains. “So I really think whatever we do in the future, we’ll be able to start just completely fresh. It’ll be a new story, a new part of my life.”

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