Thanks to 's music and lifestyle , soul is once again the center of attention. Young, white musicians are inspired by the black music of the sixties. Eli Reed is a 24-year-old boy from Massachusetts. He owes his nickname to a typical hat, a 'paperboy hat', that he wore in his (even) younger years. Massachusetts is not really soul country, so Eli decided to move to the birthplace of soul and sing
… in the bars of Georgia and Louisiana. It seems like the ghosts of and settled there in the voice of this talented young man. From pounding swingers full of searing horns to heartbreaking tearjobs: Eli Reed shows that he can handle it all. The singing newspaper delivery boy is a boy to keep an eye on. (PdK)more
