diff --git a/ChangeLog.md b/ChangeLog.md
--- a/ChangeLog.md
+++ b/ChangeLog.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Changelog for persistent-mysql
 
+## 2.13.0.4
+
+* No longer errors on `json` columns. [#1333](https://github.com/yesodweb/persistent/pull/1333)
+
 ## 2.13.0.3
 
 * Bugfix: Omit `REFERENCES` in `CREATe TABLE` statements. These are ignored by
diff --git a/Database/Persist/MySQL.hs b/Database/Persist/MySQL.hs
--- a/Database/Persist/MySQL.hs
+++ b/Database/Persist/MySQL.hs
@@ -45,11 +45,13 @@
 import Control.Monad.Trans.Except (ExceptT, runExceptT)
 import Control.Monad.Trans.Reader (ReaderT, runReaderT)
 import Control.Monad.Trans.Writer (runWriterT)
+import Data.Proxy (Proxy(..))
 
 import Data.Acquire (Acquire, mkAcquire, with)
 import Data.Aeson
 import Data.Aeson.Types (modifyFailure)
 import Data.ByteString (ByteString)
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as BSL
 import Data.Conduit
 import qualified Data.Conduit.List as CL
 import Data.Either (partitionEithers)
@@ -335,6 +337,7 @@
       case m of
         Just g -> PersistLiteral g
         Nothing -> error "Unexpected null in database specific value"
+    go MySQLBase.Json       _ _  = convertPV PersistByteString
     -- Unsupported
     go other _ _ = error $ "MySQL.getGetter: type " ++
                       show other ++ " not supported."
diff --git a/persistent-mysql.cabal b/persistent-mysql.cabal
--- a/persistent-mysql.cabal
+++ b/persistent-mysql.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:            persistent-mysql
-version:         2.13.0.3
+version:         2.13.0.4
 license:         MIT
 license-file:    LICENSE
 author:          Felipe Lessa <felipe.lessa@gmail.com>, Michael Snoyman
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
                    , conduit          >= 1.2.12
                    , containers       >= 0.5
                    , monad-logger
-                   , mysql            >= 0.1.4    && < 0.3
-                   , mysql-simple     >= 0.4.4    && < 0.5
+                   , mysql            >= 0.2.1    && < 0.3
+                   , mysql-simple     >= 0.4.7    && < 0.5
                    , resourcet        >= 1.1
                    , resource-pool
                    , text             >= 1.2
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
         InsertDuplicateUpdate
         CustomConstraintTest
         ImplicitUuidSpec
+        JSONTest
     ghc-options:     -Wall
 
     build-depends:   
@@ -66,6 +67,7 @@
       , aeson
       , bytestring
       , containers
+      , conduit
       , fast-logger
       , hspec            >= 2.4
       , http-api-data
diff --git a/test/JSONTest.hs b/test/JSONTest.hs
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/JSONTest.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{-# LANGUAGE DataKinds #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE DeriveAnyClass #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE DerivingStrategies #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE ExistentialQuantification #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE MultiParamTypeClasses #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE QuasiQuotes #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE RecordWildCards #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE StandaloneDeriving #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE UndecidableInstances #-}
+
+module JSONTest where
+
+import Data.Aeson
+import Test.HUnit (assertBool)
+
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as BSL
+import Data.Conduit (runConduit, (.|))
+import qualified Data.Conduit.List as CL
+import Database.Persist.MySQL
+import MyInit
+
+specs :: Spec
+specs = describe "JSONTest" $ do
+    it "can select json with rawsql" $ db $ do
+        let testJSON = toJSON $ [object [ "test" .= ("value" :: Text) ]]
+        [[PersistByteString value]] <- runConduit $ rawQuery "select JSON_ARRAY(JSON_OBJECT('test', 'value'))" [] .| CL.consume
+        liftIO $ Just testJSON `shouldBe` (decode $ BSL.fromStrict value)
diff --git a/test/main.hs b/test/main.hs
--- a/test/main.hs
+++ b/test/main.hs
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
 import qualified ForeignKey
 import qualified GeneratedColumnTestSQL
 import qualified ImplicitUuidSpec
+import qualified JSONTest
 import qualified LongIdentifierTest
 import qualified RenameTest
 import qualified SumTypeTest
@@ -212,6 +213,7 @@
         xdescribe "The migration for this test currently fails because of MySQL's 64 character limit for identifiers. See https://github.com/yesodweb/persistent/issues/1000 for details" $
             LongIdentifierTest.specsWith db
         GeneratedColumnTestSQL.specsWith db
+        JSONTest.specs
 
 roundFn :: RealFrac a => a -> Integer
 roundFn = round