CLEVELAND, Ohio – A guitar virtuoso emerging from the “rugged coastline, medieval castles and rural landscapes” of the Isle of Man might sound a bit like a unicorn sighting. But along with all that ...

Davy Knowles inaugurated a monthly series of live concert downloads during the course of 2017. As the title denotes, Best of the Bootlegs 2017 is purportedly the proverbial cream of that digital crop, ...

As serendipitous as was the confluence of circumstances that brought Davy Knowles and Jorma Kaukonen to The Essex Experience Summer Music Series, it was all the more providential that both men gave ...

Davy Knowles is not technically from Britain, but he did grow up surrounded by it. A native son of the Isle of Man, the much-acclaimed blues-rocker was still in his teens when he started his first ...

Sometimes all it takes is one song to know something is meant for you. For blues rock singer-songwriter Davy Knowles, that song was “Sultans of Swing” by Dire Straits. When his dad played it in the ...

With fingers ebbing energy from his inner being into his guitar as if it were an internal organ, Davy Knowles shreds one guitar lick after the other, leans up to the microphone and wails away with raw ...

When Davy Knowles turned 18, his parents gifted him a suitcase. It was more than just a practical present. Knowles grew up on the Isle of Man, an island that’s just 28 miles long and 12 miles wide in ...

It’s a challenge for young blues rockers like ex-Back Door Slam frontman/guitarist Davy Knowles. They need to write and sing quality original songs while allowing the instrumental work they spent ...

During blues guitarist Davy Knowles' gig on Nov. 5 at Vegetable Buddies in South Bend, there's an almost certain chance that he will play one of his signature songs, "Outside Woman Blues." It's more ...

Davy Knowles is a talented blues guitarist and singer from the Isle of Man, who gained recognition as a member of the blues-rock band Back Door Slam. After finding success with his debut “Roll Away” ...

Every lover of electric blues and a snarling Stratocaster eventually gets to Rory Gallagher: Irish guitar legend, a giant of the instrument, and the effects of whose storied music career in the 1970s ...

Few Americans have traveled to the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea off England’s northwest coast. Chicago-based musician Davy Knowles calls it home. “I grew up in a village called Port St Mary on the ...