CD REVIEWS
By Michael Swanger scenescribe@mchsi.com
Eli “Paperboy” Reed
“Come and Get It!”
Capitol Records
Where 2007’s breakthrough album “Roll With You” was a wake-up call to those who follow the new vintage soul movement made popular by Amy Winehouse, James Hunter and Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings, Eli “Paperboy” Reed’s major label debut, “Come and Get It!” arguably makes him the most stirring blue-eyed soul belter of his generation. Throughout the album’s 12 songs, the Boston-born, Mississippi- and Chicago-bred singer delivers hip shaking pop-soul (“Young Girl,” “Name Calling,” “Come and Get It”), ’70s soul (“Just Like Me,” “Pick A Number”), classic R&B (“Time Will Tell,” “Pick Your Battles”) and gospel (“You Can Run On”) with the kind of pipes and believability of his heroes Wilson Pickett, O.V. Wright, Otis Clay and The Swan Silvertones. Dig it. CV
(Eli “Paperboy” Reed & The True Loves play Thursday, Oct. 14 at 8 p.m. at the Maintenance Shop in Ames. $13.)
You Are Home
“Funzzz”
Sleep On the Floor
Recording studios can be a trap for some musicians, but not You Are Home’s Matthew Dake, whose manic creativity continues to impress as he uses the studio more like an instrument than an evil necessary on his third and strongest album in as many years, “Funzzz.” The album’s 11 instrumental tracks range from metal (“Funzzz Variations,” “Pasolini’s Dick”), to percussive (“P9,” “Brown & Ground”), to space oddities (“Smoldering Torso”), to psychedelic (“Learning to Funzzz,” “Funzzz”), to creepy distortion (“Introduction,” “Sex Urchin”) — sometimes all in one — with a sense of wild experimentation that is missing from most music today. To help create his loose concept album about “having a good time,” Dake recruited fellow Ames musicians like Bryon Dudley, Jordan Mayland, Aaron Alcott, Nate Logsdon and Kate Kennedy. The result is a composite of unique musical perspectives without boundaries. CV
(Visit http://sleeponthefloor.com for more information about You Are Home.)
