The Best of David Nevue (2001-2010). A collection of best selling songs from David's albums released between 2001-2010. Featuring highlights from Postcards from Germany, Sweet Dreams & Starlight, Overcome, Adoration: Solo Piano Hymns and Revelation: Solo Piano for Prayer and Worship. A great album to start your David Nevue collection with!

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Album Liner Notes by David Nevue...

When David Nevue released Whisperings, his first “Best of” collection in 2001, his music was still relatively unknown. Ten years later, the same can no longer be said. David has become one of the most recognized names in the contemporary solo piano music genre. While the Whisperings collection of 2001 encapsulated the most popular works from David’s early years (1985-2000), this collection, Awakenings, features highlights from albums released between 2001 and 2010. These albums include: Postcards from Germany, O Come Emmanuel, Sweet Dreams & Starlight, Overcome, Adoration: Solo Piano Hymns, and Revelation: Solo Piano for Prayer & Worship.

The upbeat Postcards from Germany, released in 2001, was inspired by David’s travels to Germany and Austria in 1998. Each song represents a musical “postcard” of an event, place or adventure, making the album a musical scrapbook of sorts. Four tracks from Postcards from Germany have been selected for this collection, including "Big Snow in Salzburg," one of David’s most popular songs to date. Also featured are "The Kindness of Strangers," "In God’s Hands," and "Wonderland."

The birth of his two children in 2000 and 2003 brought much inspiration to David’s music. During these years, he composed many sweet songs, melodies and lullabies, most of which ended up on his 2004 album Sweet Dreams & Starlight. Also included on Sweet Dreams were “leftover” songs from earlier recording sessions that didn’t make it onto previous albums for one reason or another. One of those musical remnants, an arrangement of "Greensleeves," was finally released on Sweet Dreams and it, along with the title track, "Eden Again" and "The Gift" (re-released after its first appearance on his 2003 Christmas album, O Come Emmanuel) became the most popular songs on the album.

In October, 2003, David lost his father, a Christian evangelist and missionary, to cancer. Many of the songs David composed during this time reflected his coming to grips with this loss. In 2005, David released Overcome, a tribute to his father’s unwavering faith, and a musical testimony to relying on God’s sovereignty during difficult times. Overcome was nominated for – and won – “Best Instrumental Piano Album of 2005” at the prestigious Lifestyle Music Awards. Included in this collection is the powerful title track, as well as David’s arrangement of "As the Deer," a popular praise chorus based on Psalm 42. Also featured are the standout tracks "Treasure Falls," "Broken," "Winter Walk," and David’s heartfelt arrangement of the hymn, "It is Well With My Soul."

The process of composing music for Overcome, an album that included five hymn/praise song arrangements, brought David into a period of musical transition… from writing primarily original material to creating arrangements of popular hymns and contemporary worship melodies. This transition led to David’s 2007 release, Adoration: Solo Piano Hymns, David’s first #1 charting album. David’s arrangements of "Amazing Grace" and "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" from Adoration are both included in this collection.

While in the studio recording Adoration, David took frequent breaks to improvise on contemporary praise and worship melodies. This was done on a whim, but by the end of the Adoration sessions, David had recorded nine extra songs, all improvisations. Amazed and surprised by the result, David returned to the studio months later to record more improvisations and hymn arrangements. The result was David’s eleventh album, Revelation: Solo Piano for Prayer & Worship, released in 2009. Included here is David’s improvisation on the classic praise song "Here I Am to Worship," as well as an original song from the album (and one of his personal favorites), "The Lion and the Lamb."

Heading into the next decade, David’s music is more widespread than ever. People are discovering his music via Pandora Radio, Sirius XM, YouTube, Spotify and anywhere else music can be streamed and enjoyed. As new fans discover David’s music, they are sharing it with others. Even piano teachers are catching on, adding sheet music of David’s songs to the instruction they are giving their piano students (or, in many cases, piano students bring David’s music to their teachers as they want to learn it!) The awareness of David’s music has taken on a life of its own, thanks in great part to the energy and enthusiasm of David’s fans.

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