Box-O-Plenty Records is a record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

, started by Richard Derrick

Richard Derrick

Richard Derrick was born in Torrance, California in 1961, and is a lifelong resident of nearby San Pedro. He began playing music at an early age, starting with piano at age four, guitar at age ten, then learning both drums and bass guitar at 15...

, a musician based in San Pedro, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. Between 2003 and 2011, the label released the following:

• D. Boon and Friends
  D. Boon and Friends
  D. Boon and Friends is a music CD compiling various jam session and live recordings featuring the late Minutemen guitarist and frontman D. Boon. The album is the inaugural release of the Hermosa Beach, California-based label Box-O-Plenty Records, started by Boon's one-time roommate Richard Derrick...
  
  (BOP CD 001), a collection of live and home recordings made in 1984-85, including six songs from a 1985 Minutemen show where Derrick was the substitute drummer. Most of the recordings were taken from Derrick's private collection, as he was Boon's roommate at the time these recordings were made. This project was done with the approval of Boon's family.

• Alive In California (BOP CD 002) by British singer-songwriter Kevin Ayers
  Kevin Ayers
  Kevin Ayers is an English singer-songwriter and was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement...
  
  , whom Derrick brought to the US in 1998 and 2000 for two California mini-tours (Los Angeles and San Francisco). Ayers performs several of his best-loved songs, backed by local musicians.

• Season Finale (BOP CD 003) by Solo Career, a side-project band featuring Derrick on bass guitar, Bob Lee on drums, and guitarists Woody Aplanalp, Nels Cline
  Nels Cline
  Nels Cline is an American guitarist and composer, currently the lead guitarist of alternative rock band Wilco. David Carr of the New York Times describes Cline as "one of the best guitarists in any genre."-Career:...
  
   and Ken Rosser. The cover artwork is by British artist Paul Whitehead, a longtime resident of Los Angeles. The music was recorded at two shows in 1997 and 2002. Other musicians who have performed with Solo Career include Joe Baiza, Danny Frankel, Mario Lalli and Mike Watt
  Mike Watt
  Michael David Watt is an American bassist, singer and songwriter.He is best known for co-founding the rock bands Minutemen, dos, and Firehose; , he is also the bassist for the reunited Stooges and a member of the art rock/jazz/punk/improv group Banyan as well as many other post-Minutemen...
  
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In March 2008 Box-O-Plenty released eleven albums by Another Umbrella, comprising seven hours of music, exclusively via digital download. These recordings were made between 1980 and 1991, with editing, mixing and mastering taking place between August 2007 and February 2008. Titles are as follows:

• Eventide (BOP 004)
• Before (BOP 005)
• Equinox (BOP 006)
• Transition (BOP 007)
• Crystal Mountain (BOP 008)
• At Cloud Level (BOP 009)
• From Now Until (BOP 010)
• Off Into (BOP 011)
• Upstream (BOP 012)
• Arrival (BOP 013)
• Offering (BOP 014)

Box-O-Plenty ceased operations in June 2011.