- Vinyl (24 Oct 2011)
- Number of Discs: 5
- Format: Box set
- Label: Numero
- ASIN: B005HZDXJS
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 318,518 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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From 1958 to 1993, Thomas and Louise Boddie's industrious Boddie Recording Company issued nearly 300 albums and 45s, recorded 10,000 hours of tape, and remained in operation longer than any other studio, pressing plant, or label group in the history of Cleveland. Long forgotten even by the standards of the chronically overlooked northeastern Ohio music scene, Boddie was a fusion of its owner's engineering genius and his limited economic means; its DIY recording studio housed in a humble barn, churned night and day to capture the sounds emanating from Cleveland's east side neighborhoods. The best of the Boddies' in-house Soul Kitchen, Luau, and Bounty labels, which released an unspoiled treasure trove of kitchen-sink eccentric soul, fuzzbox funk, shoestring doo-wop, and haunted, eerily hook-laden spirituals, are collected here. Enclosed inside is a mountain of office-styled ephemera: two massive booklets brimming with detail on the Boddies and their artists; extensive notes and scores of unpublished photos; a complete detailed discography folio; reproduced fliers; and a Boddie greeting card-all rendered with the handcrafted charm that was the Boddie hallmark. Call it a self-contained record industry crammed into one box. Close to five years was spent on the research and restoration of the Boddie archive, a feat matched only by last year's epic Syl Johnson set. If you thought there was nowhere for Numero to go but down, prepare to be bowled over. No expense has been spared, no detail ignored. Easily our most impressive package to date, Boddie Recording Co. is a super-hybrid of our Eccentric Soul, Good God!, and Local Customs concepts all wrapped in one string-and-button or cloth bound box.
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If you've never come across the Numero label before let's just say that they're the US equivalent of the AceUK group. They search vaults and unearth material that hasn't been heard in ages, and even then often only by the people responsible for making the recording.
This release marks the point where sheer volume has overcome the poor long suffering staff at Numero, who up to this point appear to have been trying to release everything in their possession one way or another. With around 10,000 tracks to choose from for this release they were never going to make it. They've tried, there are three more albums and a box of 45s coming from this particular session, plus one CD and one 10" LP which were available only with pre-orders from Numero's website, and I'm sure more will be on the way if the staff at Numero can be persuaded not to take any holidays for the next few years.
It really grates to give a Numero release only 4 stars, but in their enthusiasm to get everything you could possibly want onto this box set they will have, without a shadow of a doubt, included something from someone somewhere that doesn't appeal to you, even if it's only to disagree with their definitions of funk, soul, and Gospel.
This vinyl version contains 7 more tracks than the CD version, but you're paying a lot more for those tracks, and since I don't have the CD version I can't even tell you what those tracks are, and what's more that doesn't matter because you'd never have heard of them anyway...
It's hard to know what to say about records that contain nothing but material that you've never heard before. I know that by and large I like a lot of the material on here, but that doesn't mean that anyone else will. I think I would have to suggest that unless you are a previous Numero customer and trust them implicitly you should go to their website and listen to the samples on there before considering this rather expensive undertaking.
Then buy it.
This release marks the point where sheer volume has overcome the poor long suffering staff at Numero, who up to this point appear to have been trying to release everything in their possession one way or another. With around 10,000 tracks to choose from for this release they were never going to make it. They've tried, there are three more albums and a box of 45s coming from this particular session, plus one CD and one 10" LP which were available only with pre-orders from Numero's website, and I'm sure more will be on the way if the staff at Numero can be persuaded not to take any holidays for the next few years.
It really grates to give a Numero release only 4 stars, but in their enthusiasm to get everything you could possibly want onto this box set they will have, without a shadow of a doubt, included something from someone somewhere that doesn't appeal to you, even if it's only to disagree with their definitions of funk, soul, and Gospel.
This vinyl version contains 7 more tracks than the CD version, but you're paying a lot more for those tracks, and since I don't have the CD version I can't even tell you what those tracks are, and what's more that doesn't matter because you'd never have heard of them anyway...
It's hard to know what to say about records that contain nothing but material that you've never heard before. I know that by and large I like a lot of the material on here, but that doesn't mean that anyone else will. I think I would have to suggest that unless you are a previous Numero customer and trust them implicitly you should go to their website and listen to the samples on there before considering this rather expensive undertaking.
Then buy it.
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GREAT TRACKS BUT 3 OF THEM SKIP ON 3 DIFF RECORDS
25 Feb 2012
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I DON'T KNOW WHO TO BLAME BUT I FOUND 3 DIFF TRACKS THAT SKIPPED DURING PLAYBACK ON 3 DIFF RECORDS.OTHER THAN THAT SOME GREAT TUNES...
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