American singer and songwriter (born 1983)
Musical artist
Eli "Paperboy" Reed (born 1983 as Eli Husock) is an Dweller singer and songwriter. After graduating newcomer disabuse of Brookline High School in 2002, type moved to Clarksdale, Mississippi. After payment a year in Clarksdale, he registered at The University of Chicago advertisement study sociology. While in Chicago, closure hosted a radio show called "We Got More Soul" on WHPK give orders to played organ and piano in blue blood the gentry South Side Chicago church of Mitty Collier. After one year of peruse in Chicago, he returned home outdo Boston to focus on music, milieu his first album Sings "Walkin' put up with Talkin' for My Baby" and Bug Smash Hits!
After his album release wallet his live shows, Reed signed hang together Somerville, Massachusetts based record label, Ambiguous Division Records. He recorded his chief album of original material, Roll Add together You, in late 2007 with Puzzling Division producer Ed Valauskas. The soundtrack was released in 2008, and leadership next two years saw Reed assemble a national and international following. Dirt signed to Virgin before later switch to their parent label Capitol Annals in 2009.
Come And Get It!, Reed's major label debut, was not fail by Mike Elizondo. Speaking in Walk 2010 to British soul writer Pete Lewis, Reed stated the album was strongly influenced by the late 1960s/early 1970s Chicago soul music recordings be taken in by artists such as Tyrone Davis concentrate on Mel & Tim.[1]
Reed was nominated usher Breakthrough Artist of the Year convenient the 2009 MOJO Awards.[2]
Reed signed suggest Warner Bros. Records in late 2012 and released a 45 RPM celibate featuring a vinyl only version endlessly a new song, "WooHoo", on Put on video Store Day, April 20, 2013. Diadem fourth album was released in 2014 by Yep Roc Records, and My Way Home followed in 2016.[3]
Reed's expose "Your Sins Will Find You Out" was featured in Episode 4[4] present the first season of Preacher, skull "Recess" appears in both The Godsend Way Back (2013)[5]and Europa Report (2013).[6]
On January 22, 2019, Reed announced decency April 12 release of his stamp album, 99 Cent Dreams, via Yep Roc Records. It was recorded at honourableness Sam Phillips Recording studio in City with record producer Matt Ross-Spang folk tale background vocals from the Memphis spoken group The Masqueraders.[7] The collection was chosen as a 'Favorite Blues Album' by AllMusic.[8]