What was the country music scene like in Kennett, Missouri?
DN: You know what? There really wasn’t one. Everybody always references that there were a few people that came out of their town that pursued this as a career. But I think it was more coincidence than anything. It was one of those things where everyone in town was listening to what was hip and what was cool. I just got a little more intensely involved than most people. KMJ: This new album isn’t your first one. You released a single with Mercury Records in 2002 called “Memphis” that was a top 50 hit, but the album never got released. What was that album like and how is I’m About To Come Alive different? DN: They’re night and day. The first record I started making when I was 20 or 21 years old and was a baby. I was green as could be. I really had no concept of what I was doing. I was so new to town and things happened so quickly that I more or less was just flying by the seat of my pants. Having some struggles in my mid-twenties and being able to reference those in song for the record wa
