![]() I felt like what I have in this record is special and I didn’t want to rush it out just to rush it out. I waited on it because I couldn’t tour in the midst of Covid so I tried to do what I could to keep the fire burning on socials and just being selective. No, I think it’s probably going to be a next year thing. I can’t imagine you can give much about the dates of the album but is looking like this year? That way people that don’t know who I am maybe get a little better understanding of that. I think I tried to give as broad of a perspective of the way that I think, the way that I can feel at times and who I really am. Ironically it still rings true to this day. Not politically charged one way or the other, just a hey, this is where we’re at. I wrote about the state of the Union in some of the stuff. I wrote a song about my old man on the record. They’re very close to me, they’re very personable. We did cut the record in the midst of Covid so that was in 2020 I believe. ![]() I wrote a song that touches on dealing with depression and the things that I’d kinda gone through in that time. I wrote a song for my wife on the record which I had never done before. I think this record as a whole gives a 30,000ft view of who Kyle Daniel is as a writer, as an artist, as a human being. The record itself, the songs are very close to me. I started writing this probably a year before Covid started and it’s still not out. I think this entire record, which will be ‘Kentucky Gold’, is quite the journey. Did you want to talk about it? It seems like quite the journey! It definitely spun me in the right direction! You put out the Following the Rain EP a couple of months ago. I was listening to something completely different at the time. I grew up in the 90s so a lot of that R&B, soul stuff kinda peppered in with the alt rock stuff so it was kind of a jolt to say the least when that kind of stuff was introduced. I had a different eclectic taste, I loved a lot of hip-hop and rap. Ironically early on Green Day was one of my favourite bands. I went from some teenage punk kid that loved what was popular. I was like ‘what is that?’ and my dad was like ‘son, that’s slide guitar, you need to learn how to play that!’. ‘Statesboro Blues’, they counted it off and I will never forget what it sounded like when that slide guitar came in. My dad was a big Almond Brothers and Skynyrd fan and Marshal Tucker and Charlie Daniels so you put all that stuff together… I specifically remember I think that all leant itself to my own personal taste when I remember my dad saying ‘Son, this is real music’ and put on The Almond Brothers band. I think that was what really initially for me that set the hook. Even though The Band weren’t from the south they definitely sounded like a southern band. And obviously the duel guitar leads, that leant itself to Skynyrd and Thin Lizzy and The Band, that classic sound that was this Southern thing. I love The Almond Brothers, Greg Almond is my hero. I would categorise it as southern rock personally, as that’s what I grew up on. How would you describe your sound? What inspirations do you draw from? I’m just glad to see some buddies overseas, I got to see Everette while over there and it’s like man, we played in a bar that holds 350 people for years and years called Tidballs in my hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky. I think guys like Tyler Childers and Sturgil Simpson and Chris Stapleton obviously blew the doors wide open for it to be cool to be from Kentucky again. For the longest time there was a weird stigma about being from Kentucky. For the longest time I think Kentucky Tennessee people think like ‘do your cousins wear shoes?’ and stuff like that. There’s a lot of groups in and around Kentucky that are making a splash right now. Yeah! I mean there’s so many that it’s really tough to kinda single anybody out. Your local scene looks to be having a bit of a resurgence too, right? Any other artists you want to shout out? The support from socials to merchandise to streaming songs, the crowd over there is a different beast, for sure. ![]() But man, some of the best fans that anybody could as for, definitely. Maybe it’s the fact that they don’t get to see a bunch of American artists so part of the hunger comes from that. I think there’s a different appreciation for music all together. And then obviously The Long Road Festival (review here) was super cool as well! What’s the scene like in Europe compared to over there? I love playing clubs, I’ve played clubs my whole life, and a couple of venues in Germany were like that. We played on a boat, we played the blues garage which felt like we were in Gatlinburg Pigeon Forge Tennessee or something. The cool thing about this run was all of the different places that we played. This time felt like a family reunion of sorts. Oh man, I’m still on an absolute high from that thing.
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