D-Vine/Bible & Tire, 1970s. New Copy
A stunning overview of work from the small D-Vine Spirituals label in Memphis – a really homegrown imprint who were as important to the sound of the city's spiritual music as Stax Records was to soul in the 60s! In fact, the vibe here is often more 60s than 70s – maybe a testament to ...
D-Vine/Bible & Tire, 1970s. New Copy
A stunning overview of work from the small D-Vine Spirituals label in Memphis – a really homegrown imprint who were as important to the sound of the city's spiritual music as Stax Records was to soul in the 60s! In fact, the vibe here is often more 60s than 70s – maybe a testament to ...
Gospel Friend, 1950s/Early 60s. New Copy
A huge look at the early career of the great Alex Bradford – one of gospel music's rising stars in the 60s, thanks to recordings for Vee Jay and Atlantic – but heard here on an assortment of small label singles from the years before! Even at the start, Bradford has something special ...
JCR/Bible & Tire, Early 70s. New Copy
Rare gospel gems that go way past the usual – tracks recorded for the small JCR label in Memphis during the 70s, but done with a stripped-down vibe that's much more like postwar gospel overall! Most of the acts here are pretty darn obscure – groups that were inspired by the spirit and ...
Gospel Friend, Late 30s/1940s/Early 50s. New Copy
Two decades' of work by Elder Charles Beck – a really important force in the early years of gospel music, and an artist who really helped link the music to more secular styles too! Beck plays both piano and trumpet – the latter quite a surprise, and is used here on early cuts to ...
Mississippi, Mid 70s. New Copy
Rare material from Georgia singer Brother Theotis Taylor – one of those unique southern talents who work in a stripped-down mode that's equal parts gospel and blues – maybe more blues in structure, but definitely with a deeper spirit in the message! Taylor only issued a handful of ...
Gospel Friend (Germany), Mid 50s. New Copy
An essential collection of rare material by this important female gospel trio of the 50s – a group who's not only known for bringing a style to the music that was ever bit as great as male group gospel of the pre-soul years – but who also are the initial early home to later soul ...
Nashboro/Third Man, 1950s/Early 60s. New Copy
A fantastic collection of postwar gospel recordings from the legendary Nashboro Records – one of the most important imprints for the music back in the 50s and 60s! We rank the work of Nashboro right up with the famous Houston-bred productions of Peacock Records – and as Peacock was ...
Numero, Late 60s/Early 70s. New Copy
Killer gospel work from a small Chicago label – most of it pretty darn funky and soulful as well! The label sticker on the album's cover states a link too musical roots in the deep south – but the overall sound here is more in that wonderful hybrid of spiritual and secular that ...
JCR/Bible & Tire, Early 70s. New Copy
A treasure trove of rare and unusual gospel recordings from the Memphis scene – work done for the tiny JCR imprint of the also-tiny D-Vine Records label – a real wellspring of under-discovered talent from the south! JCR was kind of the bush league for D-Vine – a custom label that ...
S&K/Light In The Attic, 1980. New Copy
A gospel album from the end of the 70s, but a set that works equally well as a soul album too – thanks to the beautiful presentation of the grooves and the vocals! The vibe here is often laidback – more in a mellow Marvin Gaye sort of mode – surprisingly slinky and sexy for such ...
Brenda/Luaka Bop, 1975. New Copy
A lost gospel treasure from this obscure Mississippi group – cut in the mid 70s, but with a stripped-down sound that's completely timeless overall! The Staples Jr Singers certainly have picked up some of the more righteous currents of mainstream soul and funk at the time – echoed both ...
Bible & Tire/Fat Possum, 2021. New Copy 2LPGatefold
A fantastic little session of gospel music – contemporary work, but done in the same sort of "field trip" style of recording that takes us back to Alan Lomax and some of the great southern projects of the postwar years! In this case, the music all comes from a studio in Fountain, ...
JCR/Bible & Tire, Early 70s. New Copy
A treasure trove of rare and unusual gospel recordings from the Memphis scene – work done for the tiny JCR imprint of the also-tiny D-Vine Records label – a real wellspring of under-discovered talent from the south! JCR was kind of the bush league for D-Vine – a custom label that ...
Fat Possum/Big Legal Mess, 1970s. New Copy
Amazing stuff from the Converted Mind of Bishop Manning and his family! Manning was a former down & dirty blues singer who was changed forever byThe Good Word in the early 60s – and the lived in realness of these recordings certainly suggests a blues pedigree. It's completely wonderful, ...
FLI, 2021. New Copy
A really unique take on the music of John Coltrane's Love Supreme – served up here in a sacred steel style by the Campbell Brothers, on a set recorded live in Amsterdam just before the passing of brother Darick Campbell! Here, Darick plays lap steel next to pedal steel from Chuck Campbell ...
Bible & Tire, 2022. New Copy
Soulful, spiritual sounds from North Carolina legend Johnny Ray Daniels – an artist who started out in soul, but soon found gospel more to his liking – then went on to create a decades-long legacy of wonderful music like this! The album's contemporary, but given a very old school ...
Bible & Tire, 2022. New Copy
Soulful, spiritual sounds from North Carolina legend Johnny Ray Daniels – an artist who started out in soul, but soon found gospel more to his liking – then went on to create a decades-long legacy of wonderful music like this! The album's contemporary, but given a very old school ...
HOB, 1970. Very Good+
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Song Bird/ABC, 1974. Very Good+
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Birthright, 1981. Sealed
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Vee Jay, 1962. Very Good
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James Cleveland & The Southern California Community Choir
It's A New Day
Savoy, 1979. Very Good+ 2LP Gatefold
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HOB, Early 70s. Very Good+
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Truth/Stax, 1973. Very Good+
A wonderful bit of gospel soul from Stax – a lost gem that's as great as anything the Truth subsidiary of the label ever issued! Gene Page and Gene Barge handled the arrangements and production for the record, and it's got a smooth 70s soul sound that reminds us a bit of the Voices Of East ...
Reverend Milton Brunson & The Thompson Community Singers
Miracle Live
Myrrh, 1984. Very Good+
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VOP, 1977. Very Good+
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Pinebrook, Mid 70s. Near Mint-
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Sound Of Gospel, 1980. Near Mint-
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