War - The World Is a Ghetto (40th Anniversary Edition) (1972) [FLAC]

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War - The World Is a Ghetto (40th Anniversary Edition) (1972) [FLAC]


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Technical Information
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Artist...............: War
Album................: The World Is a Ghetto
Year.................: 1972 (2012)
Genre................: Soul/Blues/Funk
Type.................: Studio Remaster & Expanded
Duration.............: 1:09:43
Number of Songs......: 10
Artwork..............: Included

Audio Format.........: Lossless
Ripper...............: dBpowerAMP 15.1
Encoder..............: FLAC 1.3.0 (Level 5)
Hz...................: 48,000
Bitrate..............: 1536kbps
Channels.............: Surround
Reader...............: LiteOn iHAS524
Source...............: CD (not my rip)


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General Information
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The World Is a Ghetto is the fifth album by the band War, released in late 1972 on United
Artists Records.

The album attained the number one spot on Billboard, and was Billboard magazine's Album of
the Year as the best-selling album of 1973. The album is ranked number 444 on Rolling Stone
magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

This is the 2012 "40th Anniversary Remastered & Expanded Edition" with 4 previously unreleased
bonus tracks.

The cover illustration was drawn by Howard Miller, with Lee Oskar credited with album concept.


Band:
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


Tracklist:
01) "The Cisco Kid" – 4:35
02) "Where Was You At" – 3:25
03) "City, Country, City" – 13:18
04) "Four Cornered Room" – 8:30
05) "The World Is a Ghetto" – 10:10
06) "Beetles In The Bog" – 3:51

40th anniversary bonus tracks: Ghetto Jams
07) "Freight Train Jam" - 5:41
08) "58 Blues" - 5:26
09) "War Is Coming" (blues version) - 6:15
10) "The World Is a Ghetto" (rehearsal take) - 8:06
Time: 1:09:43