Jazz Articles about Eli "Paperboy" Reed and the True Loves

Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves: Roll With You

by John Coltelli
July 9, 2008

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 incorruptible truth and the driving force behind a movement that influenced race relations, the political system, the merging of musical genres and that most American of all qualities: deeper and more personal self expression. From the shrieks of James Brown to the shouts of Wilson Pickett to ...