Numero 035.5 Local Customs: Pressed at Boddie RSD 2011

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In Plastic, Unopened, Brand New from Record Store Day 2011! Please look at my other Record Store Day auctions for great deals! Will ship worldwide!

Extremely limited run!

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Numero 035.5

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 All in all, it’s a pretty awesome listen, crafted more like a mix tape than a historical document.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.

For openers, most Record Store Day records are trashy cash-ins. Bogus 7? repros, expensive and needless live LPs, and perhaps the worst culprit of all, records that aren’t actually limited but are marketed as such (We’re looking at you Flaming Lips Dark Side Of The Moon). Numero understands what a cash grab this holiday has become, and instead has created the first must-own RSD album. Housed in a gatefold sleeve, Pressed At Boddie comes with the most insane discography (compiled by Ohio soul expert Dante Carfagna), a full color 18×22? poster of labels, and a detailed history of the plant. And because we recognize that there are different kinds of buyers out there, we’re making this on CD (Burned at Boddie) and cassette (Dubbed at Boddie). This isn’t just some slap-dash, let’s-rape-the-customer job, we’ve spent as much time making this as we do every Numero album. There may be more colored vinyl in the field that day, but we highly doubt there will be anything that stacks up to Pressed At Boddie.