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Title:	David Nail in The Legendary Gospel Lounge
Date:	10/3/2026 (Saturday)
Address:	2715 Rochester St, Kansas City, MO, United States, Missouri 64120
Location:	Kansas City, MO
Hours:	Saturday, October 3, 2026 at 8:00PM CDT
Cost/Cover:	See Details
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**The first 50 people who buy tickets get a free meet and greet before the show!!**

David Nails candor cuts like a laser through star-making propriety, a ritual of predictable answers to predictable questions, recited by artists averse to the controversy that truth can bring.

True, he is respected up and down and beyond Music Row. Hes written or co-written multiple hits. Critics laud his singing too: The late, revered Chuck Dauphin, for one, marveled at Nails ability to turn an ordinary lyric and arrangement into a tour de force, adding, simply put he is not one of us.

So hes got rock-solid credentials. And he earned them despite a refusal to present himself in a false light. His songs pull no punches in evoking the demons with which he has wrestled through much of his life. As Nail explains, its not so much an act of courage to write about depression and its effects. Rather, it is simply who he is; he says, in conversation and through music, what he must say.

In Nails own words, My philosophy has always been, I just hope to have a good enough year that I can have a next year while staying as true to myself as I possibly can.

The practical and the personal: These are the poles that mark the path Nail continues to follow. It began in Kennett, Missouri, Nails hometown, and led to Nashville. At the time, he recalls, Id written songs about a lot of things I had not lived or experienced. So it was like Id gotten onto this train and I had to just sit there and hope that the train kept moving. I was so young and naive and ignorant. I started trying to figure things out but I really needed somebody to tell me I wasnt a moron. First and foremost, I credit Frank Liddell with helping me find where I should live musically. Hes always told me its alright to experiment.

The celebrated producer helmed Nails album debut, Im About To Come Alive, and the t