Home > MUSIC > XPN Welcomes New Year's Eve with Davy Knowles & Back Door Slam

• Tweet
• Outlook
• ICAL
• PRINT
• Email
• Feedback

• RSS

• Official Website
• Buy Tickets

XPN Welcomes New Year's Eve with Davy Knowles & Back Door Slam

Presented by World Cafe Live at World Cafe Live - Philadelphia

December 31, 2009-January 1, 2010

Comment on Facebook

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 the blues rock sounds that influenced him. Two albums later, and after logging thousands of miles on the road - Davy's anxious to get back out there to play. "You should play music because you love doing it," he says, "If you can hang in for the long haul, you're doing what most people can't, and you're incredibly lucky." And for Davy Knowles, the next stop is the world.