Eli 'Paperboy' Reed: Come and Get It | CD review

(Parlophone)Amy Winehouse's Back to Black album was such a perfect simulacrum of 60s soul that it's easy to assume every blue-eyed soul singer to have followed was influenced by her sound and/or success. Boston's 26-year-old Eli "Paperboy" Reed may feel he has more of a connection to the source material – he moved to the Mississippi Delta as a teenager – but Come and Get It mines a similar vein of 1960s Stax records and early Motown. Everything here is expertly performed, and Reed has a rasp...

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