Eli "Paperboy" Reed Archives • Americana Highways

BENTLEY’S BANDSTAND: June 2025

June 30, 2025July 8, 2025Bill Bentley0

BENTLEY’S BANDSTAND: June 2025 By Bill Bentley Jeffrey Broussard and the Nighttime Syndicate, BAYOU MOONLIGHT. It is well known in the burgs and bayous of New Orleans that music is meant to be put in the mixer. Any number of genres can get thrown together, and the end result often borders on bliss. There is […]

Music & Film Reviews: Frank Zappa’s ‘Cheaper Than Cheep,’ plus Janis Ian, Christian Parker, Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed, and Big Love Car Wash

June 8, 2025July 4, 2025Jeff Burger0

Frank Zappa’s Cheaper Than Cheep, plus Janis Ian, Christian Parker, Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed, and Big Love Car Wash Frank Zappa and his band, the Mothers of Invention, were riding high in June 1974. They’d just completed a 10th-anniversary tour and, only three months earlier, had released Apostrophe (’), their first and only Top 10 album. […]