Roll Away by Back Door Slam

Roll Away, the debut from Manx blues-rock power trio Back Door Slam, came out on Blix Street Records in 2007, on the Isle of Man first in June, then in the US in July and the UK in September. Davy Knowles plays guitar and sings, Adam Jones is on bass and Ross Doyle on drums, and Dave Armstrong produced a record that sounds like a young band who learned the blues the hard way, in hundreds of gigs back home.

It's mostly blues rock, heavy on Knowles's guitar, but there's Celtic air, folk rock and a little country rock drifting through songs like "Too Good for Me", "Too Late" and the title track. The heart of it is "Stay", Knowles's tribute to Brian Garvey, the band's original rhythm guitarist, killed in a car accident in 2004. The band named themselves after a Robert Cray song, and the record got them as high as number 3 on Billboard's Blues Albums chart.

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