Eli Paperboy Reed

“It’s been twenty years since I’ve had a real job”, laughs Eli Paperboy Reed from his Brooklyn apartment. In some ways, he’s not joking, though those two decades have been chock full of the round-the-clock hustle that it takes to make a career in the fickle music industry. Indeed, Reed has found a way to maintain a famously high standard for both his critically acclaimed albums (nine and counting) and his notoriously sweaty, searing and soulful live sets.