Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves: Roll With You

HERE'S THE MAIN thing separating Eli Reed from all those other blue-eyed soul (and blues) poseurs: even though he's so obviously working a black musical form, he does it with such a combination of knowing restraint and unabashed enthusiasm that there's not a whiff of minstrelsy or blackface affectation in him. He just sounds like a guy having the time of his life singing in a black-derived style.