Davy Knowles joins with some familiar Friends on new project, MKO

Former Back Door Slam frontman and guitarist Davy Knowles has been playing with Rory Gallagher band alums Gerry McAvoy (bass) and Brendan O’Neill (drums) in the Gallagher-focused Band of Friends for more than half a decade now, in addition to maintaining his own successful solo career. But the trio’s new project, MKO (for McAvoy, Knowles, O’Neill), is less about Gallagher’s music and more about that of, well, McAvoy, Knowles, and O’Neill. And we have to say that we’re liking what we’ve heard so far, which you can hear also by checking out these first two blues-rocking singles from the band’s upcoming album, due out this fall.