‘This’ll make you feel better
and for any armchair drag racer who still has a record player within reach
which today turn up with the frequency of pebbles in a stream
the piano style of both Ray Charles and Horace Silver were described as funk
Eccentric Soul: The Cash Label is a vital testimony for a scene that blinked once and then disappeared into the wind
Cleveland, Ohio Format:3xCD ‘This’ll make you feel betterFrom 1958 to 1993, Thomas and Louise Boddies 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 owners engineering genius and his limited economic means, its DIY