The Number Runner

During our excavation of the Boddie Recording Studio, a mysterious tape marked Ant Hill Mob turned up. On our return trip, Dante Carfagna turned up the codex for the entire studio, which lead to the discovery of this unissued Soul Kitchen 45. “Number Runner Parts 1 & 2" falls in right around the time of Boddie’s Creations Unlimited 45, made while breathing the same psychedelic fumes pouring out of Thomas and Louise Boddie’s pressing plant smoke stack. Ezra “Eddie” Robitson, born into a musical family on Cleveland’s East Side, was taken under the wing of his singing aunt Ruby Carter. Her only soul single, 1971’s “What About Me” b/w “Unlucky Girl,” was pressed at Boddie, issued on Lester Johnson’s Way Out label, and enjoyed modest local airplay. When Ruby’s band the Exceptional Three split, young Eddie was pulled in to handle bass for Carter’s new live band. With chops honed on the Cleveland club circuit, Eddie began drafting a band of his own. Built from fellow John F. Kennedy High