In celebration of Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, Eli Paperboy Reed puts his own soulful spin on the poet laureate's "To Be Alone With You" from 1969's Nashville Skyline. The single is available today; ...

Eli Paperboy Reed, that venerated progenitor of all things soul, R&B and Americana, today announces the October 20 release of Hits and Misses: The Singles. Featuring songs that were previously only ...

Surging from deep within the heart of American music there lies a pulse--a rhythm, an explosion of sound—called soul music. From its heyday in the 1960s it has been the sensuous energy, the ...

The Beatles named theirs Past Masters. Tom Waits went with Orphans. And The Who’s Odds and Sods delivered a British take on the concept. Now it’s Eli Paperboy Reed’s turn to gather his stray singles ...

The answers: Yes, yes, and yes. Now 24, Reed spent his 18th year singing in the juke joints of Mississippi, and Delta DNA must have seeped into his bloodstream. Reed, who owes his nickname to a ...

Two men, two backing bands with nostalgic-sounding names—-in a neo-soul showdown, who reigns supreme? The ’60s-inspired Motown/Philly Soul/Stax sounds of Eli “Paperboy” Reed and Mayer Hawthorne aren’t ...

Boston-born, Brooklyn-based soul singer Eli “Paperboy” Reed cut his chops in Southern juke joints and Chicago gospel choirs, waiting side-stage in Mississippi clubs for a chance to sing between acts.

With a big sound and upbeat songs, Eli "Paperboy" Reed and his band, The True Loves, play bright, '60s-inspired neo-soul. While Reed may be reminiscent of another era, it's more as if he was born at ...

Who: Eli “Paperboy” Reed, a Boston-via-Delta South soul singer who, with his band the True Loves, conquered both street corners and punk clubs with a mix of grooved-out rave-ups and slow-burning ...

Eli Paperboy Reed launches his new Swamp Dogg produced album 'Getting There'. Eli Paperboy Reed has established himself as one of the leading figures in the modern soul revival, earning acclaim for ...