ARTiST: Davy Knowles & Back Door Slam
ALBUM: Coming Up For Air
BiTRATE: 193kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Blix Street Records
GENRE: Rock
SiZE: 71.50 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 48min 32sec total
RiP DATE: 2009-06-27
STORE DATE: 2009-06-16

Track List:
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01. Coming Up For Air 4:36
02. Riverbed 3:38
03. Mistakes 4:15
04. Hear Me Lord 6:03
05. Amber's Song 3:12
06. Tear Down The Walls 5:01
07. You Can't Take This Back 4:52
08. Country Girl 4:28
09. Keep On Searching 5:07
10. Saving Myself 3:11
11. Taste Of Danger (Duet With 4:09
Jonatha Brooke)

Release Notes:
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"Feels like comin' home." That was your truly's instant reaction upon hearing
Back Door Slam's 2007 debut Roll Away, a blustery slice of blues-based power
trio rawk channeling the collective spirits of Cream, Taste, Blue Cheer, Beck
Bogert & Appice, etc. - stuff I cut my teeth on as a teenaager and still love
dearly. With elements of southern rock creeping into the mix as well - think a
younger version of Gov't Mule - and twin-powered by frontman Davy Knowles'
coal-black vox and uncommonly accomplished fretwork (he was barely into his
twenties), the three-piece from Britain's Isle of Man quickly established itself
as a favorite on the festival and jamband circuits. Meanwhile, sonic catnip for
the aging critics in the crowd was provided by way of concert setlists liberally
stuffed with the classics (for example, hi-octane covers of "Outside Woman
Blues," "Almost Cut My Hair," "Been Down So Long" and a positively Hendrixian
"Red House" - all included, incidentally, on the Live From Bonnaroo album
recently issued by the band's label, Blix Street, on double vinyl LP and
promotional-only CD). Before the year was out, Back Door Slam was making the
rounds of tastemaker radio and the TV talk shows. Not bad for a group that only
made its official public debut in March at SXSW.



Unfortunately, Back Door Slam's ascent proved to be too fast, too soon, and in
2008 the trio dissolved. Knowles, shrewdly, opted to retain the name as he put
together a different incarnation of the band, hiring a new rhythm section,
drafting the Heartbreakers' Benmont Tench for keyboard duties and bringing in
heavy hitters Peter Frampton (production) and Bob Clearmountain (mixing) to up
the commercial ante. Strategizing aside, though, there's nothing shrewd or
calculated about the music on Coming Up For Air - it's every bit as authentic
and thrilling as the material on its predecessor.



In terms of the most overt differences between the two albums, Tench's Hammond
probably stands out the most. While there were keyboards present on Roll Away,
here the organ plays a greater contextual role to subtly steer Back Door Slam
away from its initial power trio aesthetic and towards slinkier, subtler, more
soulful grooves not unlike the way Danny Louis helped evolve latterday Gov't
Mule. This becomes obvious from the get-go with the title cut - an anthemic
slice of midtempo, wah-wah flecked hard rock awash in neopsychedelic colorings -
and later, on a striking gospel-blues cover of George Harrison's "Hear Me Lord,"
which features producer Frampton lending his guitar skills to the arrangement.
Additionally, in the spooky, spectral "Mistakes" Tench sparingly deploys a
Wurlitzer to convey a jazzier, almost noirish vibe; such elegant fleshing out of
the core Back Door Slam sound would suggest that if Tench isn't available for
touring, Knowles would be wise to cast around for a permanent keyboardist.



Fans of the debut won't have any complaints, however. Back Door Slam revisits
its roots on several cuts, notably the kinetic chugger "Tear Down The Walls" and
"Keep On Searching," a brawny, swaggering rocker that brings to mind the late,
great Free (particularly in Knowles' athletic Paul Rodgers-esque vocals) or even
Frampton's old combo Humble Pie. On the latter cut Frampton again contributes
some of his signature electric guitar, and it's a gas to hear him in one speaker
and Knowles in the other as they go mano a mano in a duel of spiraling riffs.
Also familiar to those who own Roll Away: backing vocalist Christine Collister,
who appeared on the 2007 album and is present on a number of tracks here.
(Hailing, like Knowles, from the Isle of Man, Collister is a much-admired
veteran of the British folk/blues/jazz scene, having worked since the ‘80s with
the likes of Richard Thompson and Clive Gregson and additionally releasing a
number of solo records.) Another gifted female songstress guests on Coming Up
For Air as well: Jonatha Brooke, who submits a saucy duet with Knowles on the
album's closing track, "Taste of Danger."



Knowles may claim to be coming up for air on his sophomore effort, given all
that's gone down for him over the past several years, but there's no question
Coming Up For Air is only going to accelerate his career trajectory even
further. Better take a deep, long breath, kid.

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