Blog: The Line Of Best Fit

Jesus H. Christ! Here's a voice and a half that means the name of Eli 'Paperboy' Reed can be uttered in the same sentence as Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett and Sam Cook without fear of embarrassment. With his electrifying live act ("I rip a lot of pants."), he's on his own 'mission from God' to pick up the mantle of Jake and Elwood as flag bearer for the Stax/Chess/Motown legacy. There's been a lot of retro sounds around lately of course, from the ladies mainly, but this is so immediately authentic that, just as with the original soul [...]