War - The World Is A Ghetto (24KTGold) (1972)
War - The World Is A Ghetto (24KTGold) (1972)
Funk | EAC Rip | Flac + Cue + Log | HQ covers, booklet
Avenue Gold Collection | 24KT Gold edition | 355Mb
Funk | EAC Rip | Flac + Cue + Log | HQ covers, booklet
Avenue Gold Collection | 24KT Gold edition | 355Mb
War's third album as an act separate from Eric Burdon was also far and away their most popular, the group's only long-player to top the pop charts. The culmination of everything they'd been shooting for creatively on their two prior albums, it featured work in both succinct pop-accessible idioms ("The Cisco Kid," etc.) as well as challenging extended pieces such as the 13-minute "City, Country, City" – which offered featured spots to all seven members without ever seeming disjointed – and the title track, and encompass not only soul and funk but elements of blues and psychedelia on works such as the exquisite "Four Cornered Room." "The Cisco Kid" and "The World Is a Ghetto" understandably dominated the album's exposure, but there's much more to enjoy here, even decades on. Beyond the quality of the musicianship, the classy, forward-looking production has held up remarkably well, and not just on the most famous cuts here; indeed, The World Is a Ghetto is of a piece with Marvin Gaye's What's Going On and Curtis Mayfield's Curtis, utilizing the most sophisticated studio techniques of the era. Not only does it sound great, but there are important touches such as the phasing in "Four Cornered Room," not only on the percussion but also on the vocals, guitars, and other instruments, and the overall effect is a seemingly contradictory (yet eminently workable) shimmering blues, even working in a mournful and unadorned harmonica amid the more complex sounds. (allmusic)
Tracks:
1. "The Cisco Kid" – 4:35
2. "Where Was You At" – 3:25
3. "City, Country, City" – 13:18
4. "Four Cornered Room" – 8:30
5. "The World Is a Ghetto" – 10:10
6. "Beetles in the Bog" – 3:51
Personnel
* Howard Scott – guitar, percussion, vocals
* B.B. Dickerson – bass, percussion, vocals
* Lonnie Jordan – organ, piano, timbolies, percussion, vocals
* Harold Brown – drums, percussion, vocals
* Papa Dee Allen – conga, bongos, percussion, vocals
* Charles Miller – clarinet, alto, tenor and baritone saxes, percussion, vocals
* Lee Oskar – harmonica, percussion, vocals
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War / The World Is A Ghetto
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