Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States (1982) (1982)
Bio
Eli "Paperboy" Reed, a Boston-via-Delta South soul singer who conquered both street corners and punk clubs with a mix of grooved-out rave-ups and slow-burning ballads. Sounds like your favorite Motown and Stax Records livened up for the Winehouse era.
If you go back in the history of roots music, you’ll find that genres that are harshly separated today were not so clearly distinct in an earlier time. Up to the ’50s and ’60s, country and folk were closely tied to blues, and the word often appeared in the title of country songs.
The Future Juke festival continues to bring excellent shows and following on from last week’s superb set by Cedric Burnside, last night was the turn of Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed and he put on a brilliant belt of Stax-tinged soul complete with a superb horn section.
It’s certainly a timely decision of American soul maestro Eli Paperboy Reed to record and indeed promote his latest, fourth album, My Way Home backed up by the considerable firepower of the Mighty Brass Band.
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