Eli "Paperboy" Reed
Eli "Paperboy" Reed
Latest Release
- You're Gonna Make Me Cry
- April 2025
- • 2 Songs
Top Songs
| 1 | Pick A Number | ||
| 2 | Come And Get It | ||
| 3 | 99 Cent Dreams | ||
| 4 | Shock to the System | ||
| 5 | Am I Wasting My Time (Original Demo) |
Albums
Mar 2025 • 1 song
Oct 2023 • 11 songs
Oct 2023 • 4 songs
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- Southwest Florida's #1 Country
About
Biography
A soul-blues revivalist who isn't strictly a traditionalist, Eli "Paperboy" Reed synthesized several strands of 1960s soul, marrying gritty Southern funk with gutsy Chicago blues. Although his 2008 breakthrough Roll with You was thoroughly steeped in retro sounds, a pair of major-label records -- 2010's Come and Get It! and 2014's Nights Like This -- proved that he could thread in such relatively modern elements as drum loops, and on 2019's 99 Cent Dreams, he invited rapper Big Daddy Kane in for a verse. Such stylistic hybrids were a common theme in his catalog, also appearing...