Sep 23, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results
TVD Spotlights Elder Jack Ward’s Already Made “Ward’s singing is a delight throughout an album that’s essentially faultless. A” | Read More at The Vinyl...
Sep 7, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results
Premiere #2: A Field Trip Yields Sacred Soul Treasures From North Carolina “A pair of producers made a field trip to the eastern part of North Carolina just before the country shut down last year, and there, in a small studio in the town of Fountain, they...
Sep 1, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results
Tony Burke tells the story behind two new gospel albums “JCR Records, a subsidiary of the D-Vine Spirituals label, was a custom pressings label, founded by JuanD. Shipp which had its first release around 1972.” | Read More...
Sep 1, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results
Elder Jack Ward’s Original, Time-Tested Take on Sacred Soul “Elder Jack Ward, age 83, may be the greatest gospel singer you’ve never heard of.” | Read More at Memphis...
Aug 19, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results
From Sharecropping to Soulful Singing: Jack Ward’s Remarkable Story “Jack Ward was a successful Stax recording artist, but, remarkably, has never made an album–until now.” | Read More at Down at the...
Aug 19, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results, Bluegrass Situation
Watch: Elder Jack Ward, “The Way Is Already Made” “‘I can just about sing anything anyone else sings…” | Read More at...
Aug 18, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results
“Someone Who Is Greater” by Elder Jack Ward off New Album, Already Made “Ward grew up in Itta Bena, MS, in the Delta, home to B.B. King, picking and chopping cotton and driving a mile.” | Read More at Psychedelic...
Aug 17, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results, MMRF - Results
“Sacred Soul” from North Carolina “Johnny Ray Daniels speaks softly, but his voice shakes North Carolina’s coastal plain when he and the other members of Little Willie and the Fantastic Spiritualaires start to sing the gospel music they’ve passed...
Jul 21, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results
Memphis gospel artist Elder Jack Ward to release first album in more than 50 years “Memphis gospel revival label Bible & Tire Recording Co. has been on a fairly hot streak since the company was launched in 2019 by roots music impresario Bruce Watson.” ...
Jul 20, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results
Americana album reviews in the summer time “Black gospel styles: sacred booty shaking, celestial falsetto flights, fervent testifying.” | Read More at Gold Mine...
Jul 19, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results
Graded on a Curve: New in Stores for July 2021 “But for anybody looking to dip a toe in roots gospel, this is a fine place to start.” | Read More at Vinyl...
Jul 12, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results
Exclusive Video Premiere: Elder Jack Ward’s Sacred Soul Song, “The Way Is Already Made” “Ward grew up in Itta Bena, MS, in the Delta, home to B.B. King, picking and chopping cotton and driving a mile.” | Read More at American Blues...
Jun 16, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results
Bible & Tire Recording Co. set to release ‘The Last Shall Be First: The JCR Records Story, Vol. 2’ “In collaboration with Shipp, Watson has begun calling surviving artists from the JCR and D-Vine labels back into the studio for new...
Jun 11, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results
Exclusive track premiere from the the reissue series “This is just incredible, raw, impassioned music from the 1970s.” | Read More at Psychedelic...
Jun 10, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results
The Calvary Nightingales Inject Freshness into Sacred Soul “The unlikely story behind these extraordinary recordings dates back to the early 1970s, when Shipp began looking for a way to close the gap in sound quality between releases from the large sacred soul...
