The store has a lot of jazz, blues soul and classic rock and roll. He doesn’t waste his time with new vinyl, which he says isn’t 100 percent plastic and has a higher warpage rate. “There is so much great music that is never going to get on the radio in modern times, so when these younger people come in, I love to introduce them to people like that,” Clark said. “They’re from San Francisco at the same time as the (Grateful) Dead and Jefferson Airplane, but they took a totally different style of music,” as he puts on their album “Castles” on his immaculate turntable and sound system. “Have you heard of the band The Joy of Cooking?” he asks me.
Walk into his store and you are met by a man who has a love and encyclopedic knowledge of music. O’Bryan does not charge Clark for rent or utilities, instead taking a share of record sales. Since opening in the brewery six months ago, Clark isn’t so concerned about selling records as he is about creating a new culture of music lovers. “(Vinyl) has warmth, it has vibrato, it has things you’re not going to get from a digital signal because you are chopping off all of the highs and all of the lows, compressing the signal and bringing it back out.” Vinyl is very high maintenance, and you have to treat it with respect. “It’s all contingent on having a good system. “I’m really, really enjoying it,” Clark said of the re-emergence of the vinyl market. Located in 500 square feet of the brewery that O’Bryan said he couldn’t find a use for anyway, sits Clark’s new record store. “I haven’t been in the Little Big Store in Raymond in quite some time, but that’s the only store in Mississippi that can even begin to compete with me, and that doesn’t include what I don’t have in the shop,” Clark said. Clark and O’Bryan partnered shortly thereafter, and Valley Vinyl was born. Instead, 450 people showed up, paying $15 just to enter and take a look at his expansive collection, which he says is the biggest in the state. The natural tie-in between the brewery people and record people is a great fit.”Ĭlark said he was hoping 100 people would show up on the day of the sale. “You couldn’t have a better facility and ambiance. I came over the next week and was awestruck with this incredible building,” Clark said of the facility, which became the fourth Ford dealership in the country in the early part of the 20th Century.
O’Bryan offered to host his next sale at his newly open brewery housed in a historic building on Main Street in Water Valley. “Immediately my gears started turning,” O’Bryan said. owner Andy O’Bryan received an invitation to one of Clark’s famous fire sales in Tunica. By chance in June 2014, Yalobusha Brewing Co. “I put records in there by the beaucoup,” Clark recalled.Ĭlark said he hosted an invitation-only event to allow people to scavenge his record collection twice a year beginning around 2010. His collection eventually became so big that he persuaded the city of Tunica to build a 30-foot-by-60-foot steel building. (Photo: Photos by Rory Doyle/Special to The Clarion-Ledger)ĭespite closing his record store, The Alternative, in Natchez more than four decades ago, Port Gipson native Dell Clark never stopped collecting vinyl.Īs he traveled the country in a new career, scouring for deals on antiques, invariably vinyl would be a part of the equation.
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