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Various Artists
Local Customs: Pressed At Boddie
DETAILS
Format: LP
Label: Numero Group
Release type: RSD Limited Run / Regional Focus Release
More Info:
2LP
Coming to a physical record store near you (April 16th for those not planning their lives around this near-Hallmark holiday): Local Customs: Pressed At Boddie.
Following our acquisition of the Boddie Recording Company in 2010, we began transferring a mountain of Cleveland gospel, soul, funk, boogie, rock, garage, folk, and every other manner of weirdness committed to tape that came through the Boddie’s door. Many of these tapes were left behind by the client some 30+ years ago, forgotten faster than the miniscule amount of records pressed at the Boddie plant. As our upcoming Boddie Recording Company box set deals with their in house Bounty, Soul Kitchen, Luau, Cookin’, and Soul Mine labels, we wanted to pay tribute to the Boddie’s pressing plant, which for about a decade was the epicenter of greater Cleveland’s small time record business.
Included on Pressed At Boddie are 16 wildly different tracks, coming from a handful of different scenes. Pre-Pere Ubu synth-madness butts up against the group harmony stylings of the Imperial Wonders. Donald Eckert’s blown-out folk sits next to Bill Spoon’s modern dance moves. All in all, it’s a pretty awesome listen, crafted more like a mix tape than a historical document. And yet, this thing is pretty fucking historical.
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