WAR – The World Is A Ghetto: The Complete Sessions – 4CD Box Set

4CD – Limited Edition 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition Box Set Reissue. The Original Album + Bonus Tracks and The Complete Sessions.

WAR The World Is A Ghetto was a top selling album upon its release in 1973. This set is a unique creation overseen by original producer Jerry Goldstein that includes the original album, and then each of the six songs from the original album in the original jam recordings, so fans can hear how Jerry curated the final songs from the original recorded jams. Upon its vinyl release last year, Pitchfork rated it an 8.8 (out of 10) and stated that the bonus material “…of in-studio jams suggests they might have rivaled Herbie Hancocks Headhunters as one of funks greatest groups of improvisers.”

Along with the release of the 4CD version of The World Is A Ghetto we will also be working to grow streaming on key tracks which will include “World Is A Ghetto” and “Cisco Kid.”

The new reissue of a landmark album of 1970s funk restores the Los Angeles groups reputation as multi-cultural pop savants and unstoppable improvisers. – Pitchfork

Tracklist:

CD 1: Original Album
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]

CD 2: Bonus Tracks
1. L.a. Sunshine (Original Jam) [13:12]
2. War Is Coming (Original Jam) [12:35]
3. Lonnies Wednesday Night Jam [5:35]
4. Lees Latin Jam [9:58]
5. Blues For Papa Dee [6:21]
6. This Is My Song Milton James [6:25]

CD 3: The Making Of The Tracks
1. The Making Of the Cisco Kid [25:51]
2. The Making Of where Was You At [23:02]
3. The Making Of city, Country, City [24:09]

CD 4: The Making Of The Tracks
1. The Making Of four Cornered Room [24:58]
2. The Making Of the World Is A Ghetto [25:35]
3. The Making Of beetles In The Bog [24:30]