WHAT'S NEW

May 18th 2011  The restuarant in Commerce is coming along and we should be opening in late September.  I will be booking the bands and need anyone who has a band that would like to play at the college corner cafe to get in touch with me.  We will have a nice stage and sound system provided.  We are having all kinds of music so you dont have to be a country band to play there.  Sign in on the guest book with your band information and how to get in touch with you. 

You can see me live at Balcony Club with KGB, most Saturday nights, 6-9pm, unless I have a GIG somewhere else. Check my calendar for all of my Upcoming Shows!

I perform original songs from the Kasuals late 1960’s hits, 40’s Standards, Original songs and your favorite covers from the 50’s, 60’s & 70’s, with the same high energy of Kenny and the Kasuals with a more intimate approach. You will hear stories from 41 years of performing on the road with Kenny and the Kasuals, only in a Pub type atmosphere, up close and personal.

January 30 - February 6, 2011 - I will be joining the Tex-Mex Fandango Cruise III this year and bringing a great mix of your favorites. You can get to know me and the other great performers up close and personal by booking a cabin on the Tex-Mex Fandango Cruise III right away. Call Texas Cruise Company at 1-325-835-7561 for more information and to reserve your cabin.  http://texmexfandango.com/singerssongwriters/kenny-daniel/

COMMERCE TEXAS LATE SUMMER of 2011 --  Larry Smith, Mike McQuery and myself are opening a restaurant / bar near the campus of A&M University at Commerce.  If you ever went to East Texas State in the 60' and 70's the restaurant was called the Charquett on Mayo street.  It will be called the College Corner Cafe or the CCC. Larry started many very popular restaurants like the San Francisco Rose in Dallas, The very famous HUTS in Austin on 6th street, not to mention several successful places in Boulder and Denver Co. We will have entertainment like Kenny and the Kasuals, The K.G.B. Band, Ray Wylie Hubbard, T. Gosney Thorton and the Texas Hat Band + local bands from Dallas, Austin, and Commerce. Great food and drinks and specials each week.  COME ON DOWN !!

September 12th - I really enjoy doing the songs I write these days about yesterday and today. I have so many original songs to share, which is a good thing, however when your trying to please your audience and please yourself, its a matter of doing the songs I want to do or,  do the songs that the people who paid came to hear.  I most always go with the covers that got me here in the first place. I write something most everyday and throw away something everyday. 
My cousin Gregg is my other bass player and a very good one. His dad and my dad were brothers. They played big band music at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas in the 1930's. The Century Room was their gig. It was the "ED DANIEL Orchestra" 13 pieces of big band wonderment. Uncle Ed played piano, accordion and trumpet. My dad G.K Daniel, (Budda) was his nick name, played drums. Fred (Mac) McCord of McCord Music in Dallas was the guitar player. Ronald Martin, who started Tex-Pac, was the Sax player and the list of great Texas musicians goes on. So Greg and I grew up listening to and loving Glenn Miller, The Dorsey Bros, Lawrence Welk, with which Ed and Budda had something to do with when we all lived in California. I don't remember much of that as I was only 8 or 9 years old. I do remember that from the age of 11 or 12 my dad wanted me to be a drummer, like him, and he bought me a set of Premier drums and I practiced everyday. Then one night in 1958 the family was watching the Ozzie and Harriett show and Ricky Nelson walked out at the end of the show and played "Bee Bop Baby" and that was it. I was going to be Ricky Nelson... And I am Ricky Nelson today, only somewhat different...Great times that shape us all.


September 13th - I was not surprized at the out come of the Cowboys game last night .  They have the worst coaching staff of any team in the world.  I cannot watch that idiot coach anymore. He is really the BUM Phillips of Football.  If I were Jerry Jones, I would have let him go years ago. 

September 14th - I am working on my original material and writing more and more each day. It must be the years of music Ive been so fortunate to be apart of. I am about to buy a small trailer for my 96 impala SS..and hit the Texas Highways for a little while.  I have so many songs and so many tales to share with everyone. Ray Wylie Hubbard is a good friend of mine and I need to go see him in Wimberly so I can laugh a little or allot.  Ive been excluded from the Texas Troubador Club as I am more of a rocker than then a crooner.  I have stories and I have songs that rivel all the best stories out there.  Ive played with the best of the best and the worst of the worst.  From Iggy Pop to the Four Freshman, The Rolling Stones to the Clash. Elvis Costillo is one of my biggest fans and I am one of his biggest fans.  
 I have done it and done that forever.  My kids are grown and my wife loves me and its time to branch out and go where no man has gone before.  Into the bad lands of entire state of TEXAS.  Born and raised and damn proud of it.  Dont get me started on the Yankees as it will only piss you off and get my blood boiling.  SEE YA AFTER THE GAME....

Kenny and the Kasuals have opened for some pretty impressive bands including Stray Cats, Oingo Boingo, Patty Smith, The Go Go’s, Yardbirds, The Doors, Beachboys – 3 times , Herman Hermits, Chicago, Poco, The Turtles, The Zombies, Bad Finger, Mountain, Mitch Ryder, Iron Butterfly, Dixie Chicks, Steppenwolf, Guess Who, Eddie Money, Rolling Stones , Stevie Wonder, The Romantics, Beatles, Jimmy Reed, Al Green, Denny Freeman, Marc Benno, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Country Joe And The Fish, Willie Nelson, Pure Prairie League, Leon Russell, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Jeff Walker, Steve Fromholz, and plenty of others.