WOW. New British band Silveroller - Hold (great hard rock sound)

[highplainsdem]

Last edited Fri Dec 8, 2023, 11:34 AM - Edit history (1)

(Cross-post from Music Appreciation.)

Found thanks to this article: https://www.loudersound.com/features/tracks-of-the-week-october-2-2023

Silveroller - Hold
Aaron Keylock has had quite a journey for a guy only just entering his twenties. By turns he’s been the precocious blues guitar kid, the blues rock singer/axe-slinging teen and the guitarist in self-titled group Keylock. Now under the name Silveroller, he’s got himself the gang he always needed. In singer Jonnie Hodson – a grinning barrel of Paul Rodgers-voiced, Rod Stewart-haired energy – Keylock has the Jagger to his Richards, the Plant to his Page. A firecracker frontman, in other words, giving him space to stretch out, loosen up, and just be the guitar player that (we suspect) he always wanted to be. Suddenly it’s all a lot less ‘blues-wunderkind’ and a lot more Blackberry Smoke, via early 70s Britain.

[highplainsdem]

1. I found two interesting interviews with these guys on YouTube.

I haven't listened to either interview all the way through, just samples of them while I was fixing and eating dinner last night. So there may or may not be stuff in both that I won't like. But from what I heard, guitarist Aaron Keylock and frontman Jonnie Hodson seem likeable and thoughtful as well as very talented.

40-minute interview done 6 months ago with both of them:

And this is a 40-minute interview with Jonnie in May 2020, during lockdown:

I was not surprised, after hearing their sound, to hear Jonnie say his favorite period of music is 1965-1975.

Same here. But I remember it, don't just know it as history.

I hope these young musicians will be very successful. But they've already had to deal with the Covid lockdown. And just when the music scene should get back to normal, AI is posing a threat.

These kids really deserve success, though.

[highplainsdem]

2. And this is what I posted in an OP about Aaron Keylock in

Music Appreciation at https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034107017 :


How have we not heard more about Aaron Keylock? Guitar/blues virtuoso at 15

Or maybe he was only 14 then. August 2013, and he was born sometime in 1998.

I just posted the new single from his new band, Silveroller, at https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034107013 . And he has an amazing frontman. But Aaron was opening for Blackberry Smoke in the UK when he was 16.

And at 15, or 14...

Article on him from a Dutch magazine, but it's in English: https://www.bluesmagazine.nl/aaron-keylock-cut-against-the-grain/

From a review of that 2017 album: https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/aaron-keylock-cut-against-the-grain-album-review

Keylock has long seemed destined for future axemaster success, his support slots with The Answer and Wilko symbolic of a passing of the baton from Joe Bonamassa. But even those prepared for Keylock’s ascendancy will be surprised and energised by this debut album, recorded in LA with Slash/Alice Cooper producer Fabrizio Grossi.

Keylock’s’s influences are rooted in 70s blues-rock heaven – the Allmans, Zeppelin, Rory Gallagher, and the ghost of Gary Moore guides standout Just One Question, written astonishingly, when Keylock was 13.

The maturity of the songwriting might be the most remarkable aspect of an album where slide-lick-stoked beauties (the title track and the optimism-packed incantatory release of Sun’s Gonna Shine) and properly rigorous dynamics (All The Right Moves) hold sway. Keylock not only has natural knowhow negotiating his chosen idiom, he also writes colourful individual songs set to make a mark alongside the influences he cherishes. The rewards awaiting him should be voluminous.

And now he's teamed up with that amazing young frontman in Silveroller.

This should be really interesting to watch...

[highplainsdem]

3. 2020 Classic Rock magazine video story on Keylock - The Story So Far + Coming Home single

Interesting short video story on the band Aaron and Jonnie had before Silveroller, with Jonnie and Aaron also mentioning their early influences - Sweet and Paul Rodgers (Free, Bad Company) for Jonnie and the Black Crowes for Aaron.

Coming Home:

https://maximumvolumemusic.com/aaron-joins-the-circus/

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Really Young To Be Influenced By Sweet

Their heyday was 45-50 years ago!

[highplainsdem]

8. I know. But classic rock is classic for a reason. Did you listen to any of the great blues

set in reply 4? Jonnie fronting the Head Hunters Blues Band 4 years ago - sounding incredible through the entire long set - and starting with Dust My Broom (recorded by Robert Johnson in 1936, then Elmore James in 1951) and following that with a Howlin' Wolf cover.

I don't know how old he is. Haven't seen any web page mentioning it yet. But I'd guess mid-20s or younger.

He's an incredible singer and harp player. Just look at the start of the second interview video I posted in reply 1. And that was three years ago, during lockdown.

[highplainsdem]

4. Jonnie's former band, The Head Hunters Blues Band, in 2019. Full 1-1/2 hr set.

Great blues band.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Quite The Throwback

I like the singer a lot.
My favorite part of the video is the quick cut where their clothes and instruments change. Clever for a straight up performance video.

[highplainsdem]

6. Jonnie Hodson's a great frontman. Did you see reply 3, that short video story mentioning Sweet as

an early influence for him, and then Paul Rodgers?

I liked all the quick cuts and changes in the video, too.

[Prairie_Seagull]

9. I just has a serious flashback. Bellbottoms? Hell yea.

Thank you hpd. I have more work to do. Shit is stacking up on me.

[highplainsdem]

10. I loved bell bottoms. Especially hip hugger bell bottoms.

The kids in this band have great fashion sense. Well, '70s fashion sense.

And if they had a time machine, they could go back and give some very successful '70s bands a run for their money.

They deserve success now, too.

This is great rock. Real talent. No autotune.

[highplainsdem]

11. There's a poll on the music magazine web page where I first found Silveroller's music

https://www.loudersound.com/features/tracks-of-the-week-october-2-2023

where you can vote for your favorite of the 8 new tracks on the page.

The poll is still open.

Not surprisingly, since many people won't listen to all 8 songs, the first 3 tracks in the poll results are also the first 3 on the page, and the last 3 in the poll are the last 3 on the page. Silveroller is 5th on the page, currently 4th in the poll.

I'd rank them 1st, followed by Florence Black's new single.

The three bands ahead of Silveroller have all been around much longer than they have.

[highplainsdem]

12. Video of an interview with lead singer Jonnie Hodson just a few days ago:

[LudwigPastorius]

13. Everything old is new again...

Seems like I've heard that guitar riff somewhere before.

[highplainsdem]

14. And that was compared to Hendrix.

[highplainsdem]

15. Linking to the thread about Black Cat Bones, the band Jonnie formed in 2013:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034107414