Eli Paperboy Reed consacrates himself as one of the best retro-soul-blues revivalist with his last album released via Yep Records last June 10. After the departure from the Warner Brothers, because of artistic and promotional disagreements with the label, he got back to an indipendent one where he has much more space in every possible sense. Possibly also a spiritual experience and a figurative comeback. An album of guitar-driven and bluesy soul in which you could hear echoes of Sam Coook or Curtis Mayfield. It does include a cover of the traditional masterpiece 'Cut Ya Down'. Reed's voice is struggling and dominates over the music and in some episodes it just smashes! 'The Strangest Thing', the title-track, 'Tomorrows Not Promised' show everyone of them the incredible vocal's quality of this artist grown up in Mississippi and immersed in the juke joint culture of the deep south.
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