Exclusive Interview, performance and lessons with Davy Knowles...

Thu, 13 May 2010

Meet 22 year old Manx born Blues-Rock guitarist/songwriter Davy Knowles who has become known worldwide as a British phenomenon.

Davy’s album, “Coming Up for Air” was produced by Grammy-Award winning Peter Frampton who has said, “Davy is very young but he’s already got a recognizable style. What a thrill it was to work with him. I feel rejuvenated. He’s a phenomenal talent. He knows just what he’s doing and where he wants to go and what he wants to sound like.’’

Davy first got bitten by music when, at age 11, his dad put on Dire Straits “Sultans of Swing.” “That made me want to play,” he recalls. By plundering his dad’s records, along with an older sister’s blues collection of magazines which came with cassette tapes, Davy was able to hear everyone from Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters onwards. He soon grew to love Cocker and, especially Rory Gallagher, who blew Davy away. “What I loved was that he came from a Celtic background like I did and I could hear it. He could express his roots in the music and I never realised I could do that, too, until I heard him.” he recalls.

Another fateful turn came when Davy’s dad took him to see Robert Cray at age 16. “I loved it and thought, ‘I want to be doing this. Why aren’t I on stage?’’’More recently, Davy realised a dream by playing a benefit in San Francisco with Cray’s bassist and drummer. “Five, six years ago I was watching those people, and now I’m on stage with them,” he beams. The name Back Door Slam even comes from a Cray song title. He has had various incarnations of the group since he was 16.’

Find out more about Davy for yourself by watching our interview, we think he’s got a great future ahead of him... how about you?

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