Who Is Kyle Daniel? The Story Behind His Journey to Country Music

This week we chatted with singer-songwriter, Kyle Daniel all about his path to finding music. Daniel shared about his upbringing, his musical influences, his current music, and even his incredible collaboration with Maggie Rose. Keep reading to learn more.

“I’m originally from Bowling Green, Kentucky. I’m about an hour north of Nashville. A lot of good music came out of this area. I went to high school with the dudes from Cage The Elephant. […] I grew up from a very music-based community. I started playing when I was about sixteen years old. It just was kinda something that took off immediately for me,” shared the singer.

For Daniel, music was a way of life from an early age. “I grew up on the Allman Brothers, that was may very first diehard love. I was fortunate enough to see them 15 times or better before Greg passed. […] I grew up on a lot of Southern Rock.” The rock influences are evident even through this current music.

The Turning Point:

While Daniel always had a burning passion for music, he also loved baseball and simultaneously, a dream to play the sport professionally. “I was once a baseball player and I thought I may try to pursue a career as a Major League Baseball player, but after an injury my freshman year, I learned how to play a little bit on guitar, and within a few months, I started a band, and never looked back. Nobody at the time wanted to sing, and I was kinda forced to do it,” shared the singer.

This band led him towards a music trajectory. “I ended up in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and I got a music business degree down there. Had a college band and then I moved to the big city of Nashville after I graduated and played guitar for a couple of different artists.” The singer also did tour management, but ultimately felt that being an artist was his true calling.

Slowly but surely, Daniel grew his fanbase and honed in on his talents as both a guitar player and as an artist. “I think finally after all this time, I’ve been able to secure a record deal, international booking agents, I’ve got a management company, and things are really starting to fit together here in 2024,” shared the singer, adding, “A lot of people compare my music and this new record to Bruce Springsteen, which is a tall order first of all and I was never really a sit down and listen to the boss kinda guy. I just appreciated the ferocity in his performance. […] I appreciate the guys who really had a fire behind what they were doing. I found myself gravitating towards it, especially as a young guitar player.”

Today:

Flash forward to today, Daniel released his Kentucky Gold album back in July. “I tried to give a full 30,000 foot view on who Kyle Daniel is as an artist,” shared the artist. “It was important to show my versatility and that I”m not just a one trick pony and there’s still some congruency in the record. I think it shows my versatility as a musician and the influences I’ve had along the way.”

Interestingly enough, the album was created in what felt like a three-part process over the span of a few years “The album as a whole was a three part process. The majority of the record was cut in in the fall of 2020. I took an all star group of musicians and we hold up in this house, and there we just eat, sleep, and breathe the record for an entire week. So when you hear a lot of the record, most of that was cut down there, and then one thing led to another, we were in the midst in COVID and I was still teetering about talking to to this record label about a deal, and then finally the deal came to fruition,” shared the singer, “I ended up in 2022 cutting, I went in the studio with Jared Johnson from the Cadillac Three, and we cut three tracks. […] That was kind of to fuel the rock side of the record, and then right before the record came out, end of last year, we kind of threw a Hail Mary, and the label said, “what about one more rock song.” […] We came out with “Can’t Hold Me Back.””

For Daniel, music is a true way of life. Kentucky Gold, as well as, his undeniable performance charm is proof enough that he is the real deal.

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