{"id":482566,"date":"2019-02-22T09:32:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T16:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=798615"},"modified":"2019-02-22T09:32:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T16:32:39","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-kyle-daniel-born-to-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-kyle-daniel-born-to-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Kyle Daniel, \u2018Born to Lose\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kentucky songwriter Kyle Daniel shines a sympathetic light on the cycle of addiction in his new song \u201cBorn to Lose,\u201d a personal track inspired by people he knew in his Bowling Green hometown.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe live in a time in which addiction has somehow impacted all of our lives,\u201d says Daniel of the song, off his upcoming EP What\u2019s There to Say?<\/em>, out March 15th. \u201cI felt the need to discuss the hardships of this crisis, without painting it in a negative light, coming from a place or understanding and acceptance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Propelled by crunchy Southern-rock guitar and some barrelhouse piano, the song showcases the accessible meat-and-potatoes sound of Daniel, who fits in just as easily in the jam world as he does in country music. He recently opened a string of shows with country thrashers the Cadillac Three, and is embarking on a solo run throughout March, before joining fellow Kentuckians Black Stone Cherry in May.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs if it\u2019s not blatantly obvious, I\u2019m a massive Allman Brothers Band fan. I saw the band, in many different configurations, over 50 times before brother Gregg left us,\u201d says Daniel, who now calls Nashville home. \u201cThat band left a mark on me like no other, and I felt this was the perfect song to display that homage. It feels very throwback to me, with the style as well as the content.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Daniel isn\u2019t a retro act. Rather, he\u2019s making vital country-rock, and with peers like Blackberry Smoke, is shoring up the once shaky subgenre. As a songwriter, he\u2019s embracing the songs and themes \u2014 \u201cBorn to Lose\u201d also nods to Seger\u2019s \u201cBeautiful Loser\u201d \u2014 that come naturally. \u201cI remember vividly the morning I woke up with this hook in my head. It was like it was seared into my brain and I had to get it out,\u201d he says of writing the song with Nashville guitarist Jordan Young. \u201cIt was so organic how we came to this idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf taking the high road\u2019s a better man\u2019s game\/then I don\u2019t guess that I\u2019ll ever win,\u201d Daniel sings in one potently pessimistic line. But with this hooky lighter-waver, he may want to rethink his worldview.<\/p>\n

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Kentucky songwriter Kyle Daniel shines a sympathetic light on the cycle of addiction in his new song \u201cBorn to Lose,\u201d a personal track inspired by people he knew in his Bowling Green hometown. \u201cWe live in a time in which addiction has somehow impacted all of our lives,\u201d says Daniel of the song, off his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-482566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 11:00:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}