I’m really enjoying Eli “Paperboy” Reed’s 2008 Album, Roll with You, at the moment. This is the opening track. It would be easy in light of Mark Ronson’s transformation of Amy Winehouse to suggest this is the result of record companies looking for something with an authentic soul sound. I don’t know if that is the case here or not. I really don’t know much about this guy other than how the music sounds and it sounds good.
It starts with insistent drumming that commands attention. Greal soulful vocals, with the full set of yelps and growls, combine with tight brass, stax-like guitar hooks and those little drum rolls to have you wondering if this really was made back in the 60s.
It’s got that sort of production where it’s just on the edge of distortion, almost as if it’s being played out of an old 60s Dansette record player. I think I’ll return to that line of thought in a later post though as that leads me into other tracks.
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