Year: December 1970 (CD 1986)
Label: Far Out Productions, Inc. (Germany), 827 736-2
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Funk
Country: Long Beach, California, U.S.
Time: 44:43, 45:59
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 262, 262 MbThe
Black-Man's Burdon is the second studio album and first double album by
American band Eric Burdon and War, released in December 1970 on MGM
Records. It was the last album by the group before Burdon left and the
remaining band continued as War.
The title is a pun on The Black
Man's Burden, an expression which refers to black slavery, used as the
title of a book by E. D. Morel (1920) in response to the poem, "The
White Man's Burden" (1899) by Rudyard Kipling, which refers to (and
champions) western imperialism (including its history of slavery).
The
album includes two suites based on songs by other artists: "Paint It
Black" by the Rolling Stones, and "Nights in White Satin" by the Moody
Blues, augmented by additional sections composed by the group. (Two
similar suites appeared on the group's first album.) The extra material
is mostly instrumental, except for "P.C. 3" (P.C. referring to Police
Constable, a common abbreviation used in the United Kingdom), a risque
poem recited (and probably written) by Burdon over the music. Two other
songs include a gospel-style chorus credited as Sharon Scott and the
Beautiful New Born Children of Southern California. Richie Unterberger
of Allmusic says the album is "Composed mostly of sprawling psychedelic
funk jams" and "it does find War mapping out much of the jazz/Latin/soul
grooves...".
The front cover shows a black man in silhouette, while
the back cover shows Burdon and a woman posed together: the woman
sitting on a wall with her legs spread far apart, and Burdon (shirtless)
resting the back of his head against her pelvis and gripping her
ankles. The gatefold photo is somewhat risque, consisting of the group
(mostly shirtless) in a field with two nude women lying in the grass.
The album also came with a numbered 7–inch by 3–inch "war bond" entitling the bearer to $1 off the admission of any War concert.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black-Man%27s_Burdon)
01. Black On Black On Black (02:04)
02. Paint It Black (02:04)
03. Laurel & Hardy (01:21)
04. Paint It Black II (01:10)
05. P.C. 3 (01:33)
06. Black Bird (02:13)
07. Paint It Black III (03:02)
08. Spirit (08:34)
09. Beautiful Newborn Child (05:09)
10. Nights In White Satin I (04:28)
11. Birds & The Squirel (02:45)
12. Nuts Seeds & Life (04:01)
13. Out Of Nowhere (03:21)
14. Night In White Satin II (02:52)
01. Sun - Moon (10:07)
02. Pretty Colours (06:47)
03. Gun (05:50)
04. Jimbo (04:54)
05. Bare Back Ride (07:12)
06. Home Cookin' (04:15)
07. They Can't Take Away Our Music (06:51)
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