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STG Presents
9/8/2009 9:00 PM at Davy Knowles and Back Door Slam - The Crocodile
2200 2nd Ave, Seattle, Washington 98121
Cost: $15
Davy Knowles has known what he wanted to do with his life since the age of 11.
I was in the car with my dad, and he put on a cassette of Dire Straits’ ’Sultans of Swing,’" explains the 21-year-old guitarist, singer and songwriter. "I just fell in love with the music then and there. That track changed my life, and I realized, ’I really want to be able to do that.’"
Hailing from the Isle of Man, the tiny kingdom in the middle of the Irish Sea, might have posed a challenge to that childhood epiphany for a lesser talent. Instead, Davy just borrowed his father’s acoustic guitar and painstakingly learned to play "Sultans of Swing" by ear.
Ironically, now young(er) guitar players are reading about him in the way he did about his heroes. Nick Anderman of the Village Voice wrote: "Davy Knowles, the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter, is talented like very few bluesmen these days. He shreds like a young Robert Cray and wails like the love of his life was just hit by a truck," while Shane Harrison of the Atlanta Journal Constitution said: "If this were a more just world, the band’s startlingly talented guitarist, singer and songwriter Davy Knowles would already be a star."
Such acclaim continued as the band played clubs, concerts and festivals and shared billings with George Thorogood, Buddy Guy, Kid Rock & Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Who and the legendary jam band Gov’t Mule.
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