Graham Reid
Graham Reid was the senior music writer for the New Zealand Herald for almost 20 years until late 2004 and has written for Billboard, numerous outlets in New Zealand, worked in radio and interviewed literally thousands of musicians. He now hosts his own highly regarded music and travel website www.elsewhere.co.nz where he posts new tracks every week and has an extensive back-catalogue of music interviews, essays and reviews (Absolute Elsewhere) as well as reminscences of famous encounters (My Back Pages) and Essential Elsewhere in which he writes about cornerstone albums essential in any music collection.
28 articles
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Warren Zevon: Tales from the Dark Side
Profile and Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, September 1992
THE VARIOUS ENCYCLOPAEDIAS of rock don't do justice to Warren Zevon. He got a snippy microscopic reference in the 1991 New Illustrated Rock Handbook ("well-established ...
Profile and Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, 1994
AT 55, ASTRID Kirchherr still loves rock music and listens to it every day: The Beatles, the Doors, Bowie... "and Prince, he's such a genius ...
Interview by Graham Reid, Vox, April 1994
From earthquakes in LA to cyclones Down Under, wherever Björk walks, mesmerized crowds and natural disasters follow ...
The Beatles: Backbeat and The Beatles Industry
Report and Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, May 1994
HIS LETTERS back home don't tell the whole story. But such letters seldom do. He says there are plenty of girls "but none of us ...
John Lennon: Bob Gruen: Just Like Starting Over
Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, 26 August 1995
New Yorker Bob Gruen is famous in the field of rock'n'roll photography but his association with John Lennon overshadows everything. GRAHAM REID hears the stories. ...
Steve Earle: Rebel With A Cause
Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, 27 February 1999
Country rock rebel Steve Earle has turned his back on cocaine and booze and talks to Graham Reid about politics and music ...
Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, 21 March 2003
SILVIO DANTE, Tony Soprano's loyal soldier and owner of the famous Bada Bing strip club, is in the lobby bar of a Sydney hotel and, ...
Steve Earle: Proud to be an American
Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, 16 April 2004
STEVE EARLE'S career has been one of the most extraordinary in American music. He crashed into country music with his 1986 classic rockin' country album ...
Gillian Welch finds new audience with old-time Americana music
Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, 31 October 2004
FOR SOMEONE WHOSE stark songs sound like they have come from the impoverished rural underbelly of Depression-era America, Gillian Welch seems as lively as a ...
Robert Johnson: Travelling Riverside Blues (Clarksdale, Mississippi)
Book Excerpt by Graham Reid, Random House, 2005
Travelling Riverside Blues is a chapter in Graham Reid's Postcards From Elsewhere collection of travel stories (Random House) and is available through his website: www.elsewhere.co.nz ...
Jimmy Webb: Interview: Jimmy Webb
Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, 27 August 2005
BEFORE HE WAS 21 Jimmy Webb had already written some of pop's most enduring songs, including 'By The Time I Get To Phoenix' (which Frank ...
Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, 18 October 2005
EVEN JOE COCKER finds it amusing he should be staying in his hotel in Denmark under an alias. After all, he's hardly fan-bait as a ...
Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks: Stevie Nicks
Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, 25 February 2006
STEVIE NICKS – the fairy queen singer in Fleetwood Mac – is in a Melbourne hotel room ready to go off to another rehearsal. In ...
Interview by Graham Reid, Rock's Backpages, May 2006
NO ONE COULD accuse reclusive songwriter and singer Scott Walker of haste. In the time between Walker's last album Tilt and his latest The Drift, ...
Interview by Graham Reid, Elsewhere, June 2008
AT 46, JAMES Hunter from Colchester in Essex is an overnight soul-singing sensation who took a couple of decades to get to where he is. ...
The Chills: The Dream is Over: Martin Phillipps of the disbanded Chills, interviewed in 1992
Profile and Interview by Graham Reid, Elsewhere, 24 May 2009
MARTIN PHILLIPPS looks bad. His skin is pasty, he's unshaven and his eyes look like an owl's in an arc light. He's been up for ...
Judee Sill: The Disappearing Crayon Angel
Retrospective by Graham Reid, Elsewhere, 18 October 2009
THERE SEEMS to be an alarming number of women musicians written out of popular culture: Doris Troy, Minnie Ripperton, Laura Nyro, Judy Henske, Mireille Mathieu, ...
The Feelies, The Golden Palominos: Anton Fier Profiled (1988): A new career in a new town
Profile by Graham Reid, Elsewhere, 7 June 2010
ANTON FIER was, until recently, a star without a bank account — or manager come to that — and yet at the nucleus of the ...
Leon Russell: Powerstation, Auckland
Live Review by Graham Reid, Elsewhere, April 2011
BECAUSE WE KNOW keyboard players do their work sitting down, few would have been worried when Leon Russell – 69, walking with a cane – ...
Leon Russell: Ever the Journeyman: Leon Russell Interviewed
Retrospective and Interview by Graham Reid, Elsewhere, 13 April 2011
WHEN LEON RUSSELL left his home in Tulsa for Los Angeles after having played in teenage rock bands, a career in music wasn't what he ...
Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, Skip Spence: We need to talk about... Skip Spence: Oar in dark water
Retrospective by Graham Reid, Elsewhere, 5 March 2012
SYD BARRETT of Pink Floyd and Roky Erickson of Thirteenth Floor Elevators don't own the category of "mad '60s acid casualty" exclusively. ...
Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones: Keith Richards ready to roll back the years
Report and Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, 5 December 2013
As the Rolling Stones prepare to bring their 50th anniversary celebrations to Auckland, guitarist Keith Richards talks to Graham Reid. ...
Rosanne Cash: The River and the Thread
Review by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, 23 January 2014
ONE OF THE LAST songs Johnny Cash recorded was the moving 'September When It Comes' with his daughter Rosanne for her 2003 album Rules of ...
George Harrison Revisited, Part One: The dark horse bolting out of the gate
Retrospective by Graham Reid, Elsewhere, 24 October 2014
PERHAPS HE WAS no more contradictory than any of us, but because of his larger life George Harrison sometimes seemed to be a man of ...
Darondo: We Need To Talk About... Darondo: The soul man who went AWOL
Retrospective by Graham Reid, Elsewhere, 10 November 2014
TO HEAR William Daron Pulliam tell how he got his nom-de-disque at the dawn of the '70s gives an insight into both his smarts, and ...
Elvis Costello, Wendy James: Elvis Costello and Wendy James: That Year's Model
Retrospective by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, 26 January 2015
TRANSVISION VAMP were one of those British bands who got through the door in the post-punk/New Wave era, but didn't quite know what to do ...
Marc Ribot Considered: Cosmopolitan guitarist without portfolio
Profile by Graham Reid, Elsewhere, 25 February 2015
IF THERE IS a distinguishing feature of American guitarist Marc Ribot's style, it is that you'd be unwise to attempt to attribute a distinguishing feature ...
Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo: The Compass and the Course: Jay Farrar/Son Volt Considered
Retrospective by Graham Reid, Elsewhere, 1 October 2017
BACK AT THE DAWN of the '90s, critical consensus and discerning listeners were drawn towards the emerging alt.country/American sound coming out of the US. It ...
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