Reid Paley

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Reid Paley (born in Brooklyn, New York) is an American musician and songwriter. He previously sang and wrote for post-punk blues-band-from-hell The Five, which he founded in the 1980s in Pittsburgh. The band later moved to Boston for several years, headlining clubs, playing to enthusiastic crowds, and releasing a vinyl LP posthumously. Returning to Brooklyn in the early 1990s, Paley continued writing and began performing solo in rock clubs on the Lower East Side, singing his songs accompanied by a 1955 Gretsch archtop guitar and a 1965 Fender amplifier. After a series of self-released tapes available only at shows, Sub Pop released his solo debut, the vinyl single Time For You b/w The Best Of All. Paley's first solo album Lucky's Tune was produced by Frank Black (formerly and again Black Francis), and released by GoodNoise in 1999. This was followed in 2000 by the album Revival, featuring Paley accompanied by Robert Lee Oliver on the three-string bass and James Murray on the trap kit, and produced by Eric Drew Feldman, who along with Jim Duffy also guests on the album. This is the first recorded appearance of the Reid Paley Trio. Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, Paley played across the USA and Western Europe, including numerous tours as support for Frank Black. Paley and Black have also collaborated on the writing of a number of songs, some of which appear on the Frank Black albums Honeycomb, Fast Man Raider Man, and Christmass. A Frank Black & the Catholics reco

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Revival

Lucky's Tune

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Approximate Hellhound

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Balling The Jack: The Birth Of The Nu-Blues

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Balling the Jack: Birth of Nu-Blues

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CMJ New Music Monthly Volume 43, March 1997

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Rolling Stone - New Voices Vol. 48

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CMJ New Music Monthly - Volume 43 - 03.1997

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Approximate Hellhound vs. the Monkey Demon

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MCPN - Não é Nada Igual - Vol.V

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New Voices Vol. 48

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Paley & Francis

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