Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) / Wholy Holy

by Marvin Gaye

Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) / Wholy Holy cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: 16 September 1971
  • Label: Tamla
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 2:58
  • Community rating: 4.21/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serving as the bleak, intensely atmospheric closer to the 'What's Going On' album, this track captures the profound disillusionment of marginalized communities in urban America. The sparse, conga-driven percussion and haunting vocal layering masterfully translated systemic economic despair into deeply sophisticated, progressive rhythm and blues.

Genres

Descriptors: conscious, protest, political, poverty

Tracklist

  1. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) (2:58)
  2. Wholy Holy

Credits

  • David Van DePitte - arranged by
  • James Nyx - written-by
  • Al Cleveland - written-by
  • Renaldo Benson - written-by

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