Rock'n'Reel

Joe Brown

Profile and Interview by Johnny Black, Rock'n'Reel, January 2007

WHATEVER YOU think you know about Joe Brown, forget it. ...

Al Kooper, Blood Sweat & Tears: Al Kooper: The Blood, The Sweat And The Tears

Profile and Interview by Johnny Black, Rock'n'Reel, February 2007

"...ALMOST NO one alive has lived as much rock 'n' roll history as Mr. Kooper in his assorted lives as performer, producer, sideman, songwriter, author, ...

Travis: Interview

Profile and Interview by Johnny Black, Rock'n'Reel, July 2007

"WHEN THE wrecking ball of success whacks you," reckons Fran Healy of Travis, "your life goes in fifty directions at once. We had to stop ...

Eric Andersen

Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Rock'n'Reel, June 2008

ONE THING Eric Anderson likes to make very clear is that he is not a folk singer. ...

John Martyn

Interview by Johnny Black, Rock'n'Reel, August 2008

All my life I've thought of you as Scottish but you were actually born in England weren't you? ...

Laura Marling

Profile and Interview by Johnny Black, Rock'n'Reel, November 2009

DESPITE ALL HER best efforts to stick a spike in the wheel of success, Laura Marling is fast-becoming the most talked-about young singer-songwriter of recent ...

Laura Veirs

Interview by Johnny Black, Rock'n'Reel, March 2010

"I DON'T OWN MANY THINGS," Laura Veirs tells me. "I'm not a things person." ...

Black Keys, The: The Black Keys: The Ongoing Adventures Of Two Complete Knuckleheads

Interview by Johnny Black, Rock'n'Reel, July 2010

"WE DIDN'T KNOW what the hell we were doing," laughs the Black Keys' frontman Dan Auerbach, in a not entirely successful attempt to sum up ...