Eli Paperboy Reed – Getting There
The album is a joyful dose of timeless soul and roots music, but it’s also a deeply mature work of lyrical craftsmanship
Eli Paperboy Reed – Getting There
Format: CD – Vinyl LP – Digital
Label: Yep Roc Records – V2 Records BeNeLux
Release: 2026
Release date: September 11, 2026
On his latest collection, ‘Getting There,’ Eli Paperboy Reed explores a more grown-up kind of love, contemplating what it takes for two people to go the distance through good times and bad.
Produced by legendary R&B iconoclast Swamp Dogg, the album is a joyful dose of timeless soul and roots music, but it’s also a deeply mature work of lyrical craftsmanship, one that reckons with the vagaries of love in the long term as it illuminates the myriad throughlines connecting soul, gospel, and R&B music with folk, country, and rock and roll.
Add it all up and you’ve got an infectious take on the work that follows the fireworks, an ode to the extraordinary endurance of the ordinary, everyday love that makes the world go around.
Website: https://www.elipaperboyreed.com/
Tracks:
01. Every Once in a While
02. Asking for a Friend
03. Getting There
04. Like We Used To
05. I Can’t Even Walk (Without You Holding My Hand)
06. How Can I Forget
07. Love You More (feat. Zaniah)
08. Knock Knock Memories
09. Sore Loser
10. One Man’s Trash (Is Another Man’s Treasure) (feat. Swamp Dogg)
11. Everyone Else
12. Hardworking People
13. The Questions