The World Is a Ghetto
by WAR
- Type: Album
- Released: November 1972
- Label: United Artists
- Country: United States
- Length: 44:00
- Community rating: 3.84/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
WAR achieved a massive commercial and creative breakthrough with this profoundly groovy, deeply atmospheric funk-soul masterpiece. 'The World Is a Ghetto' is wonderfully rhythmic and fiercely conscious, weaving beautifully bittersweet, highly political urban storytelling with remarkably progressive, intensely psychedelic Latin-funk and jazz-rock jamming.
Genres
Descriptors: political, conscious, rhythmic, progressive, jamming, funky, groove-laden, soulful, social-commentary
Tracklist
- The Cisco Kid (4:27)
- Where Was You At (3:23)
- City, Country, City (13:24)
- Four Cornered Room (8:34)
- The World Is A Ghetto (10:17)
- Beetles In The Bog (3:52)
Credits
- War - primary artist, composed by [all compositions written by]
- Lee Oskar - design concept [album concept], performer [personnel], harmonica, percussion, vocals, written-by
- Howard Miller - design [album design]
- Chris Huston - engineer
- Andrew Berliner - lacquer cut by
- Steve Gold - management
- B.B. Dickerson - performer [personnel], bass, percussion, vocals, written-by
- Charles Miller - performer [personnel], clarinet, alto saxophone [alto sax], baritone saxophone [baritone sax], tenor saxophone [tenor sax], percussion, vocals, written-by
- Papa Dee Allen - performer [personnel], congas [conga], bongos, percussion, vocals, written-by
- Harold Brown - performer [personnel], drums, percussion, vocals, written-by
- Howard Scott - performer [personnel], guitar, percussion, vocals, producer [in association with], written-by
- Lonnie Jordan - performer [personnel], organ, piano, timbales, percussion, vocals, producer [in association with], written-by
- Bob Gordon - photography by
- Jerry Goldstein - producer [produced by]