When David Nail was growing up in Kennett, Missouri, he used to make a nearly daily trek to the local WalMart store to purchase albums. He said this is how he learned how important the packaging and title were in helping him to make choices.

“I didn’t know that records came out on Tuesday. I just assumed that when someone wanted to release a record, they’d just, if it was a Thursday, then it came out on Thursday. So, I would go to Wal-Mart every day waiting for new music, and I bought so many CDs – they were tapes at the time – just because there was nothing else to buy. It was like, ‘Hey, I don’t really know this person or their music, but it’s in the country aisle and the CD looks pretty cool,’” says David. “That’s where I kind of got the concept of a title became so important and the packaging of the album, because I bought so many records based on that.”

David is currently climbing the country charts with his latest single, “Kiss You Tonight.”

David Nail (buying music in Kennett MO)  OC: …based on that. :38
“We only had one record store, and that was Wal-Mart. That was the only place where you could get music where I grew up. I didn’t know that records came out on Tuesday. I just assumed that when someone wanted to release a record, they’d just, if it was a Thursday, then it came out on Thursday. So, I would go to Wal-Mart every day waiting for new music, and I bought so many CDs – they were tapes at the time – just because there was nothing else to buy. It was like, ‘Hey, I don’t really know this person or their music, but it’s in the country aisle and the CD looks pretty cool.’ That’s where I kind of got the concept of a title became so important and the packaging of the album, because I bought so many records based on that.”