Born Kenneth Ray Daniels in the 1950’s in KwaZulu Natal, Kenny started playing the guitar at the age of
15. He loved working out the chords to and playing Creedence Clearwater Revival songs. He also fell in
love with the blues after hearing the original Fleetwood Mac playing songs like Man of the World and
Need Your love so Bad. He developed a taste for country after hearing John Denver, but it was Me and
Bobby McGee which really got to him and led him to other great Kris Kristofferson songs like Help me
make it through the night and For the Good Times. Kristofferson made music sound more accessible. It
seemed that with a battered guitar and a gravelly voice you could compose a hit song.
Kenny still plays his Yamaha FG180 he bought in the sixties and has composed a collection of his own songs. The songs on this album represent a sample of some of the songs he has written over the years. They were written on
scraps of paper or written on old 4 track tapes that had become stretched and warped. These were the
songs he managed to salvage and to eventually record. It came about when he approached Roger
Bashew at a gig he was playing at. They arranged to meet in Roger’s Studio in Turkeyberry Ave in
Hout Bay. Roger’s magical touch was soon evident and the songs began to take form – unfinished ones
were completed and new arrangements gave the songs life. The songs all have stories attached to them
but space does not allow them to be explained here. Kenny works as a sub editor for his daily bread and
is also working on producing a second album.
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