Here's an album sent express delivery email from San Fernando, Ca. courtesy of TOMORROW'S VELVET DREAMZ CREW MEMBER JR THE SOUL KING. JR describes this album as one of his favorites by War. On this LP War returned with a vengeance and new material in the mid-'70s with one of its deepest, most versatile and most musically accomplished albums. The title hit was both a pop and R&B top 10 smash and "Low Rider" did even better, topping the soul surveys and peaking at number seven pop. As usual, ballads are War's most impressive fare. The solos on "Don't Let No One Get You Down," "Smile Happy" as well as non-ballad "Low Rider" (taken by harpist Lee Oskar and saxophonist Charles Miller) are emotionally direct and involving. War borrows heavily (but successfully) from the Stylistics on "Lotus Blossom."
1. "Don't Let No One Get You Down"
2. "Lotus Blossom"
3. "Heartbeat"
4. "Leroy's Latin Lament"
5. "Smile Happy"
6. "So"
7. "Low Rider"
8. "In Mazatlan"
9. "Why Can't We Be Friends?"
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