After a record deal gone sour, the singer turned in earnest to teaching gospel quartet music to Harlem teenagers. His faith-filled new album My... Eli Paperboy Reed Finds His 'Way Home' — To Gospel ...

It's a little before midnight on Wednesday, and Eli "Paperboy" Reed has just finished his high-energy show at Brighton Music Hall. A buzz fills the room; everyone knows they have just experienced ...

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 ...

Blue-eyed soul singer Eli "Paperboy" Reed may have grown up in Massachusetts, but he conveys the heart-wrenching emotion of Southern predecessors such as Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding. Redding was ...

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 ...

“Join us at the Bell House on New Year’s Eve for a legendary ROCK and SOUL blowout! Subway Soul Club’s DJs will be spinning until the wee hours as well as special performances from OBITS and Eli ...

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 ...

One of the problems with the neo-soul revival (or any genre revival, really) is that if, theoretically, the band is doing its job right, listeners spend half the set thinking, "Hey, that sounds like..

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 ...

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 ...

It can be tough, at first listen, to know what to make of Eli “Paperboy” Reed. The Brooklyn-based singer, who grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, has recently become the beneficiary of an outpouring ...