D-Vine Spirituals Records Story, Vol. 2

The second volume in Bible & Tire Recording Company's D-Vine Spirituals Records Story compiles another 14 hard-to-find nuggets from the golden era of Memphis Black gospel music and rounds out the portrait. D-Vine was the result of a cooperative relationship between Pastor, gospel disc jockey, and engineer Rev. Juan D. Shipp, and Tempo Recording Studio owner Clyde Leoppard, a former Sun Records session drummer and leader of the western swing outfit Clyde Leoppard & the Snearly Ranch Boys. (Interracial business partnerships were rare.) They distinguished the label by fomenting an original sound using high production values, excellent physical materials (virgin black vinyl), and fair business practices. They sold records to artists upfront at a discount and they hawked them at gigs, putting more money in their pockets faster than royalty checks would. Shipp used his position as a DJ to not only play his label's records, but to get them into the hands of other gospel DJs.The D-Vine