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The Album

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The Persuasions

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Guest Artists

Photo Album

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20 TRACKS. 2 CDs. 12 GUEST ARTISTS.
VIDEOS here and here
REVIEWS: here and here


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"Hands-down the spiritual event-in-song of 2011."
---David McGee, Bluegrass Special.

The word, “unique,” is beaten nearly to death by overuse, but here it applies. There is nothing in the world like this album. Nothing. The Persuasions, Brooklyn-grown street singers who became the most important and powerful a cappella group in American history, interpret the songs of Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. Songs that many, perhaps most, people do not know. Songs that still are not widely understood to be among the most profound and beautiful in American music. Here brought to life by the most soulful voices imaginable. Sheer poetry, meet sheer melody.

THE PERSUASIONS: Jerry Lawson, Jimmy Hayes, "Sweet Joe" Russell, Jayotis Washington, Raymond Sanders. 

SPECIAL GUESTS: Country Joe McDonald, Mark Karan (Ratdog), Jackie LaBranch and Gloria Jones (Jerry Garcia Band), Grateful Dead keyboardist Vince Welnick, Dongming Qiao, James King, Alyn Kelley, Eric Thompson, Peter Rowan,  Pete Grant, Mary Schmary.

COVER ART: Luis Genaro Garcia. 
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