In an age when newspapers are folding or turning into multimedia “content” providers, there can’t be much of a future as a paperboy.  Unless, of course you’re Eli “Paperboy” Reed, who with his band the True Loves played support to James Hunter at the Arts Theatre in Covent Garden last night.
What a voice! Reed’s a 24-year-old white boy from Boston (and most of the band, if I heard his introductions right, are from Massachusetts), but his heart, and his soul, are in Memphis, in 1966. Listen to a few tracks from his album Roll With You, and then consider that those are not covers of old, forgotten Stax numbers; they’re his and his bandmates’ own compositions. Backward-looking? Who cares when it sounds this good?