Silveroller - "Black Crow" Music Video

The British band Silveroller just released a music video for their song "Black Crow." I have been following this band since 2020, through name changes and lineup changes - but something that has not changed is the band's ability to write a good song! Their influences are built in 1960s and 1970s classic rock, and it shines through in their music.

Silveroller is: singer Rev. Jonnie Hodson, bassist Dylan Evans, guitarist Kenny Tashjy, keys player Lucas Tadini, and drummer Joe Major.

I chatted to singer Rev. Jonnie Hodson about the music video and some behind the scenes:

LP: What was the writing / recording process like for “Black Crow”?

Hodson: I had the lyric and the basic melodic ideas during Lockdown. I'd done a guided meditation that was really amazing, I had like a lucid dream about following a crow through a forest. I remember telling Joe I wanted this like really slinky open/close hi hat thing in the verses, in like a call-and-response type feel. It took a while to get it together really - the middle section had really baffled us for ages, we had the verses, we had the chorus, etc, but what we were gonna do in the middle? We must have tried 20 things out before we got to that. Recording it was the fun part! 

LP: How was the music video shoot?

Hodson: It was great! We shot it on tour, so it feels like a real captured moment in time. 

LP: Ultimately, what would you like for people to get out of your music? 

Hodson: Honestly, I hope they can just connect with it in some way and feel something. We had a message from somebody saying that our song “Come On, Come In” had become part of his and his new wife's life soundtrack and they'd really connected with it. Think that's the highest compliment a musician can get.

LP: What’s next for the band?

Hodson: New music! (laughs) We have a little time to get into a space and write, demo, etc. Really looking forward to the creative process. We've all got ideas. Tadini has been talking about something in 6/8. Joe showed me some chords he'd been working on with a verse, chorus, middle 8, solo section; and me and Dyl had started working on something he'd been working on. I have a bunch of songs in like component parts too. The creative process is probably the hardest work but the most enjoyable, I think!