The Persuasions

The Persuasions: Big Legs 'n' Bad Asses

Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 13 October 1973

WE'RE BACKSTAGE at Birmingham's Odeon, logjammed into a feeble grey van – a constable and sergeant at the controls – and now we're going to ...

The Persuasions: Street Corner Symphony (Island)

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, International Times, 19 June 1972

THE PERSUASIONS are a five-strong black vocal group who perform acappella. Their album Street Corner Symphony is just what it says: a set of songs ...

The Persuasions: Street Corner Symphony

Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, April 1972

THE PERSUASIONS ceased to be a pleasant, though strange, acappella curiosity with their last album, We Came to Play. That album took a more pop ...

Van Morrison, the Persuasions: Felt Forum, NYC

Live Review by Happy Traum, Rolling Stone, 25 April 1974

Inventive Van Impresses ...

The Persuasions: Perpetual Harmony

Profile and Interview by j. poet, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May 2006

"THE PERSUASIONS! Aren't you that old do-wop group?" ...

The Persuasions: unreliable musicians led them to sing a cappella

Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 31 March 1972

THE PERSUASIONS are unique. They are, in fact, the only full time professional exponents of Accapella in the States. Accepella is the art of musical ...

The Dying Art Of Friendly Persuasions

Interview by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 3 November 1977

NEW YORK – PERSUASIONS leader Jerry Lawson checked the refrigerator in his Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment one recent morning and found it nearly empty. ...

The Persuasions: Spread The Word (Capitol)

Review by Loraine Alterman, The New York Times, 10 December 1972

GHETTO KIDS don't have parents who can spare a few hundred dollars for an electric guitar like their suburban counterparts. But they do possess an ...

The Persuasions: Streetcorner Music

Profile by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, March 1972

THE MUSIC-BUYING public (which has something – how much or how little is a matter of opinion – to do with determining the trends) can ...

The Persuasions: Bitter End West, West Hollywood CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 1971

IF YOUR friends are going to think less of you if they see you floating two feet above the ground with a silly grin stretched ...

Booker T., the Persuasions: Bottom Line, New York NY

Live Review by Vernon Gibbs, The Village Voice, 6 January 1975

Booker T. and the Persuasions: Black Folk Music ...