Kenneth Michael Edwards (February 10, 1946 – August 18, 2010)[1][2] was an American singer, songwriter, bassist, guitarist, mandolinist, and session musician.

[3] Having been a founding member of The Stone Poneys in 1964 with Linda Ronstadt and Bobby Kimmel, Edwards next turned his musical attention to the band Bryndle (with Karla Bonoff, Andrew Gold and Wendy Waldman) five years later.

His session work has seen Edwards work either live or in the studio with acts such as Emmylou Harris, Stevie Nicks, JD Souther, Don Henley, Brian Wilson, Warren Zevon, Art Garfunkel, Vince Gill, Mac McAnally, David Lee Murphy, Jennifer Warnes, Danny Kortchmar, Lowell George, as well as a younger generation of artists including Glen Phillips and Natalie D-Napoleon.

In 1964, Linda Ronstadt moved to Los Angeles to form a band with her old Tucson friend Bobby Kimmel, who had already begun co-writing several folk-rock songs with guitarist-songwriter Edwards.

A single, "Woke Up This Morning", written by Karla Bonoff and produced by Lou Adler, did arise from those sessions and met with modest success.

Waldman, Bonoff, Andrew Gold and Edwards established solo careers and session work before reforming in the early 1990s.

Many of these compositions were incidental music for television programs produced by the NFL, NASCAR, Nat Geo TV, the PGA, Animal Planet, CBS This Morning, The Daily Show, Dateline NBC and many others.

Edwards had been diagnosed with the blood disorder TTP (thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura) and had also been receiving chemotherapy for prostate cancer.