Davy Knowles & Back Door Slam

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Every so often a truly explosive, blues-steeped star comes slamming down the pike. The ‘60s were filled with acts from Buddy Guy and Eric Clapton to Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page but each generation has since added to the legacy. Think of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Cray, Susan Tedeschi, Warren Haynes and Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Now think of Davy Knowles. www.davyknowles.com Think long and hard and toast a bright future. Fronting his band Back Door Slam, the 22-year-old British phenomenon with an encyclopedic grasp of blues-rock draws on influences from Robert Johnson to Rory Gallagher, gives it a fresh Celtic feel along the way. As a songwriter, Knowles puts the muscle back into the blues but also offers a progressive, folk-bluesy slant in the brilliant new album, Coming Up for Air. And it doesn’t hurt that the Grammy-winning Peter Frampton produced it. “This music gives you a freedom to express yourself,’’ says Knowles, who hails from Britain’s Isle of Man. “With blues and with roots-based music as a whole, and with folk music, too, you can bend it any way you like. You can call B.B. King ‘blues’ but a lot of people will also call John Mayer ‘blues.’ It’s just the way you express it.’’ Just listen to the album’s first single, “Tear Down the Walls,’’ where Davy doesn’t just tear the walls down, he batters them down. “The song is how you just have to sometimes fight through hard times,’’ he says of such lyrics as “storm through the barricades.’’ “Davy is very youn

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Coming Up For Air

Roll Away

Live From Melbourne Australia

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Alternative Rock Vol 10

Live at the Gaiety Theatre

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Promo Only Modern Rock Video February 2010

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BBC Sessions

Live from Bonnaroo

Live At The Gaiety Theatre 2009

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Rocks - Magazin CD 2010/02 Heft 15

Live From Merlbourne Australia

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New Years Eve at the World Cafe, Live

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