Might As Well... The Persuasions Sing Grateful Dead

2000年。輸入正規盤1CD。

The Persuasions are the last of the old-school doo-wop groups (they started kind of late), and the most adventurous--their last album was a set of Frank Zappa covers. Even so, this disc of close-harmony Grateful Dead tunes sounds like a stretch, but it's really an outgrowth of their lovely "Black Muddy River" from last year's Stolen Roses compilation, reprised here. The mood is festive if reverent; lots of vocal and instrumental guests show up, including the younger a cappella quartet Mary Schmary and Dead keyboardist Vince Welnick. Robert Hunter's lyrics sometimes shift between musical idioms a little awkwardly, but the group delivers them with palpable sincerity and love, and digs for the R&B roots of the Dead's roses. And when the Persuasions glom onto the right song, they run with it: "Lazy River Road" a late-model song on which bassman Jimmy Hayes does his "human sub-woofer" routine, is a treat, and so is their foray into bluegrass , "Sugaree".


曲目 :
1 Here Comes Sunshine
2 Might As Well
3 Lazy River Road
4 Loose Lucy
5 Ripple
6 Brokedown Palace
7 Liberty
8 Sugaree
9 Ship Of Fools
10 He's Gone
11 It Must Have Been The Roses
12 One More Saturday Night
13 Bertha
14 I Bid You Goodnight
15 Black Muddy River