I Just Got To Know (3:09)
Walkin' & Talkin' (For My Baby) (1:56)
The Tips Of My Fingers (2:17)
The Poor Side Of Town (2:40)
I'm Tired Of Wandering (2:26)
You're Gonna Make Me Cry (3:36)
Cool Drink Of Water Blues (3:45)
A Dying Veteran's Plea (2:13)
Lone Town Blues (bonus track) (2:16)
A Woman, A Lover, A Friend (bonus track) (3:24)
Roamin' & Ramblin' Blues (bonus track) (2:33)
Right Around The Corner (bonus track) (3:16)
Brought Life Back To The Dead (2:41)
Thirty Two Twenty Blues (2:32)
Big Fat Mama Blues (3:07)
Rollin' & Tumblin' (2:42)
Stop Talking In Your Sleep (2:03)
I Can't Quit You Baby (4:39)
The Last Mile Of The Way (3:02)
Review: After 20 years of soulful and authentic rock & roll blues, Eli Paperboy Reed definitely had a right to celebrate. Originally recorded in a basement in Allston, Massachusetts, completely live onto and direct to analogue tape in mono, this collection was first released on a limited run of 300 CDs, self-released, and mostly sold by hand on the streets of Cambridge, close to Harvard University. Now redone, pressed-up and polished for 'proper release', you get all 12 original tracks and another 14 that never saw the light of day before. Four of those were recorded at the time of the others, the remainder come from a radio session the following year. All of them are incredible, and prove that it's not only the Deep South that can make these raw and unflinchingly honest sounds.
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