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The album's best known track, " Spill the Wine", was a hit and launched the band's career.Įric Burdon and War toured extensively across Europe and the United States. Eric Burdon and War began playing live shows to audiences throughout Southern California before entering into the studio to record their debut album Eric Burdon Declares "War". Jordan claimed that the band's goal was to spread a message of brotherhood and harmony, using instruments and voices to speak out against racism, hunger, gangs, crimes, and turf wars, and promote hope and the spirit of brotherhood. In 1969, Goldstein saw musicians who would eventually become War playing at the Rag Doll in North Hollywood, backing Deacon Jones, and he was attracted to the band's sound. The original War was conceived by record producer Jerry Goldstein (" My Boyfriend's Back", " Hang on Sloopy", " I Want Candy") and singer Eric Burdon (ex-lead singer of the British band the Animals). In 1968, the Creators became Nightshift (named because Brown worked nights at a steel yard) and started performing with Deacon Jones, a football player and singer. The Creators recorded several singles on Dore Records while working with Tjay Contrelli, a saxophonist from the band Love. They all shared a love of diverse styles of music, which they had absorbed living in the racially mixed Los Angeles ghettos. Lee Oskar and Papa Dee Allen later joined as well. B." Dickerson, and Lonnie Jordan to the lineup. Within a few years, they had added Charles Miller, Morris "B. Scott and Harold Brown formed a group called The Creators in Long Beach, California. War was subject to many line-up changes over the course of its existence, leaving member Leroy "Lonnie" Jordan as the only original member in the current line-up four other members created a new group called the Lowrider Band. The band transcended racial and cultural barriers with a multi- ethnic line-up. Their album The World Is a Ghetto was Billboard's best-selling album of 1973. Strong calls them "one of the fiercest progressive soul combos of the '70s". According to music writer Colin Larkin, their "potent fusion of funk, R&B, rock and Latin styles produced a progressive soul sound", while Martin C. įormed in 1969, War is a musical crossover band that fuses elements of rock, funk, jazz, Latin, rhythm and blues, psychedelia, and reggae. War (originally called Eric Burdon and War) is an American funk/ rock/ soul band from Long Beach, California, known for several hit songs (including " Spill the Wine", " The World Is a Ghetto", " The Cisco Kid", " Why Can't We Be Friends?", " Low Rider", and " Summer").