I'm About To Come Alive

From the Artist "MISSISSIPPI" (Scooter Carusoe/Dan Colehour/Chuck Leavell) I found `Mississippi' when we were starting the entire process. Actually, I was being nosy one day at my publisher's office and was going through every song in the entire catalog, which was about 5,000 to 6,000 songs. I saw the title and for some reason it just intrigued me. I listened to it and it was this really dirty piano vocal. I just loved it. The movie Ray had just come out and since I've always been really into him, the first thought that occurred to me, was, `wow this sounds like something you could just picture Ray Charles singing.' So, naturally, me being a Ray Charles fan and a huge soul/R&B guy, it was just an obvious choice. I later found out it had actually been written for a possible Ray Charles album. It's one of my favorite songs on the record. "I'M ABOUT TO COME ALIVE" (Pat Monahan/Jimmy Stafford/Scott Underwood/Charlie Colin/Rob Hotchkiss/Clint Bennett) I've been singing this song for probably five or six years. Never at any moment did I think that I'd have an opportunity to cut it for this record. It's just been that song that has been a constant in my career. For the longest time people just assumed it was one of my songs or a song that I had written. Little did they know that it was actually a cover of one of my favorite groups Train. It was the last cut on their My Private Nation record. It had a very strong, personal meaning to me at the time and over the years it's taken more of a literal, professional meaning. I'm sure I'll say all these songs are one of my favorites, but this is the song that has kind of been associated with me through the last few years of my career. "RED LIGHT" (Jonathan Singleton/Melissa Peirce/Dennis Matkosky) This came to us after the record was done. The head of A&R, Brian Wright, who's a really good friend of mine, brought it to me. To be honest, at the time I wasn't real crazy about adding it just because any time you do a record you more or less have to force yourself to close the book on it because otherwise you'll just keep going back and wanting to fix and add things. I had kind of gone through that process but after I listened to it I said, `I get it. Just tell me when and where we're recording.' And since we've been out on the road with it, introducing it to the world, so to speak, it's been great. I think it was something that we were missing on the record and I'm glad we had the opportunity to add it. "AGAIN" (David Nail/Scooter Carusoe) `Again' is a song I've wanted to write for 20 or so years. As far back as I can remember, there's a specific girl in my hometown I wanted to write about but I was never able to capture a story about her. I walked into my producer's office one day with eight lines and they were actually the first eight lines of the song. I said, `man, I have no clue what this is or where it's going but I really have to finish this song.' I knew where it was coming from and I knew that this was my best chance yet to capture that adolescent, first love, so to speak. The best thing about being a songwriter is that you have the power and you can kind of manipulate the lyric to maybe stray a little bit from the truth. There are definitely some true moments to the song, but there are some fictional moments in the song too. I'm not a huge tempo writer. And this is one of probably only four or five songs I've ever written that have any kind of tempo to it. But it's definitely one of the best songs to play live because it kind of rocks out a little bit. "CLOUDS" (David Nail/Scooter Carusoe) This idea came from an interesting experience. I had just been to Florida to see a girl. You know when you first meet someone, you're excited and you think, `this could possibly be the one.' So, in the back of my mind I was thinking I have a week, I'm just gonna enjoy this. What I learned is after about the second or third day you realize the reality of things, like bad habits, and that it's not gonna work out but you're stuck for the duration of the trip. So by the end of that week we both kind of realized that we had reached the peak, so to speak, of our relationship. I'll never forget the feeling, driving back to the airport, and thinking, `wow, this is so awkward.' The silence. It just seemed like we were never gonna get there, and the plane couldn't take off fast enough. I came back to Nashville and told that story to a friend of mine. He immediately started writing down exactly what I was saying. Little did I know, he was more or less writing the song as I was telling the story. When we recorded it, it turned out to be a beautiful track. It's one of the songs that I'm more proud of from a lyrical standpoint. It's another one of my favorites. "SUMMER JOB DAYS" (Neil Thrasher/Michael Dulaney/Gary LeVox) When I first heard the demo I just knew I had to cut it. Growing up I never went on a lot of vacations. I was actually 21 before I saw the ocean for the first time. There were
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