Jerry took us from the streets, he didn’t even try to make us sophisticated, he just said do what you do and I’ll push the buttons,” Jordan added.įor fans that want to take a deep deep dive into the record, the set includes unreleased “the making of” recordings that trace the evolution of each of the six original album songs from the first note to the final take. “We didn’t know any better back then, we were just street bums. “To me it’s amazing the stuff we did 50 years ago and how good it sounds today,” said Jerry Goldstein, who helped put the band together and produced the album. 24 The original album and bonus tracks are pressed on two gold-vinyl LPs while “the making of” tracks are pressed on three black-vinyl LPs.

Only 4,000 copies will be released on Friday, Nov. The band’s triple-platinum album, which generated two gold singles and landed on Rolling Stone’s 2003 list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, is being re-released as “The World is a Ghetto: 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition.” The five-LP box set includes never before heard songs from the band’s album studio sessions and behind-the-scenes recordings. It became the best-selling album in America in 1973 and as it turns 50, it could become one of the hottest-selling albums on Record Store Day’s Black Friday next month. Loaded with just six songs, and recorded in under a month in a studio on Vine Street in Hollywood, War’s fifth album “The World Is a Ghetto” is widely considered a masterpiece that helped bring progressive Black music to the mainstream with its mix of soul, funk, blues, a bit of psychedelia and songs about inner city life.

Chumash casino new years eve 2023