Sometimes it is nice to hear old fashioned R’n’B — and I mean by that, The Blues Brothers or Van Morrison. Especially after The Antlers. This sort of music seems to be making a revival with the likes of the young Eli “Paperboy” Reed.
I have his début album, “Come and Get it“. It is really good. At time on “Help Me” he sounds like James Brown! He really does have a great range and texture to his vocal that allows his the James Brown wail as deeper Otis or Marvin stuff.
If you like Wilson Pickett and Sam Cooke or even Jools Holland or Gnarls Barkley , then you will love Eli. Check him out!
His links:
[Embedded videoclip from YouTube of Eli – come and get it][Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5_p3iLqChQ]
The Album tracklist is:
- Young Girl
- Name Calling
- Help Me
- Just Like Me
- Come And Get It
- Pick A Number
- I Found You Out
- Tell Me What I Wanna Hear
- Time Will Tell
- You Can Run On
- Pick Your Battles
- Explosion
It’s odd that he’s white — or in fact that he looks like a fat Jimmy Carr, but hey, you soon get used to that.
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