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Throughout his career as an R&B revivalist, Eli Paperboy Reed has centered his attention on the soul made in the back half of the 1960s and the early years of the 1970s--a period that happens to coincide with Merle Haggard's ascension to the upper echelon of American music. During this period, country and soul intermingled in a variety of fashions but Haggard didn't quite partake. He sang blues and jazz, he wrote a pioneering song about interracial romance called "Irma Jackson," but he didn't delve into the gritty, funky sounds emanating out of the south. Despite this, Reed's decision to record a full-length tribute to Merle Haggard not only seems right, it seems logical. Haggard's music encompassed so many different sounds, styles, and emotions that they could easily be rearranged into retro-soul numbers, which is precisely what Reed does on Down Every Road. Sticking with the material Haggard wrote and recorded for Capitol Records--all but one of the songs here can be found on the landmark 1996 box set Down Every Road 1962-1994--Reed recasts these songs as slow-burners and ravers, anchoring his interpretations on funky backbeats, dressing them in reverb and tremolo, then delivering them with potent efficiency. The twelve songs here have the punch of a stack of old 45s: most of them clock in well under three minutes, which gives the album a swift momentum. Despite its rapid clip, Reed packs in a lot of imagination into this record, turning "Mama Tried" and "It's Not Love But It's Not Bad" into insistent soul romps while teasing out the blues in "If We Make It Through December" and "Today I Started Loving You Again." Keeping things succinct means that Reed places equal emphasis on his vocals and guitars, making sure to keep the melody and message of the songs in the forefront, letting Haggard's songbook shine through.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Merle Haggard, Composer - Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI), MusicPublisher - Eli Paperboy Reed, MainArtist
2022 Yep Roc Records 1968 Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI)
Merle Haggard, Composer - Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI), MusicPublisher - Eli Paperboy Reed, MainArtist
2022 Yep Roc Records 2022 Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI)
Merle Haggard, Composer - Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI), MusicPublisher - Eli Paperboy Reed, MainArtist
2022 Yep Roc Records 2022 Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI)
Leon Payne, Composer - Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music (BMI), MusicPublisher - Eli Paperboy Reed, MainArtist - Sabine McCalla, FeaturedArtist
2022 Yep Roc Records 2022 Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music (BMI)
Glenn Martin, Composer - Hank Cochran, Composer - Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI), MusicPublisher - Eli Paperboy Reed, MainArtist
2022 Yep Roc Records 2022 Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI)
Merle Haggard, Composer - Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI), MusicPublisher - Eli Paperboy Reed, MainArtist
2022 Yep Roc Records 2022 Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI)
Merle Haggard, Composer - Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI), MusicPublisher - Eli Paperboy Reed, MainArtist
2022 Yep Roc Records 2022 Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI)
Merle Haggard, Composer - Eli Paperboy Reed, MainArtist - OWEN PUBLICATIONS (BMI), MusicPublisher
2022 Yep Roc Records 2022 Owen Publications (BMI)
Elizabeth Anderson, Composer - Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music (BMI), MusicPublisher - Clarence Anderson, Composer - Eli Paperboy Reed, MainArtist
2022 Yep Roc Records 2022 Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music (BMI)
Merle Haggard, Composer - Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI), MusicPublisher - Eli Paperboy Reed, MainArtist
2022 Yep Roc Records 2022 Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI)
Merle Haggard, Composer - Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI), MusicPublisher - Eli Paperboy Reed, MainArtist
2022 Yep Roc Records 2022 Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI)
Bonnie Owens, Composer - Merle Haggard, Composer - Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI), MusicPublisher - Eli Paperboy Reed, MainArtist - Sabine McCalla, FeaturedArtist
2022 Yep Roc Records 2022 Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI)
Album review
Throughout his career as an R&B revivalist, Eli Paperboy Reed has centered his attention on the soul made in the back half of the 1960s and the early years of the 1970s--a period that happens to coincide with Merle Haggard's ascension to the upper echelon of American music. During this period, country and soul intermingled in a variety of fashions but Haggard didn't quite partake. He sang blues and jazz, he wrote a pioneering song about interracial romance called "Irma Jackson," but he didn't delve into the gritty, funky sounds emanating out of the south. Despite this, Reed's decision to record a full-length tribute to Merle Haggard not only seems right, it seems logical. Haggard's music encompassed so many different sounds, styles, and emotions that they could easily be rearranged into retro-soul numbers, which is precisely what Reed does on Down Every Road. Sticking with the material Haggard wrote and recorded for Capitol Records--all but one of the songs here can be found on the landmark 1996 box set Down Every Road 1962-1994--Reed recasts these songs as slow-burners and ravers, anchoring his interpretations on funky backbeats, dressing them in reverb and tremolo, then delivering them with potent efficiency. The twelve songs here have the punch of a stack of old 45s: most of them clock in well under three minutes, which gives the album a swift momentum. Despite its rapid clip, Reed packs in a lot of imagination into this record, turning "Mama Tried" and "It's Not Love But It's Not Bad" into insistent soul romps while teasing out the blues in "If We Make It Through December" and "Today I Started Loving You Again." Keeping things succinct means that Reed places equal emphasis on his vocals and guitars, making sure to keep the melody and message of the songs in the forefront, letting Haggard's songbook shine through.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:33:54
- Main artists: Eli Paperboy Reed
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Yep Roc Records
- Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B Soul
2022 Yep Roc Records 2022 Yep Roc Records
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