Homemade soul: the musical legacy of the Boddie Recording Company

For more than 30 years, Thomas Boddie and his wife manufactured vinyl records of Ohio's local gospel, funk and soul bands in their front room. Now they're available againThomas Boddie – who, between the years of 1959 and 1993, ran an entirely self-contained and self-sufficient recording and manufacturing operation in the dairy barn behind his house in Cleveland, Ohio – was no wannabe-Berry Gordy pop magnate."He wasn't interested in manicuring acts for the world stage or shaping pop stars," s...

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