There is no denying the place WAR holds in American music, notes American Songwriter. The LA-based band’s sound — an amalgam of Latin, jazz, pop, world, funk, soul, and rock — remains distinctive and influential today. They were one of the most innovative of the ‘70s West Coast acts and as 50th anniversaries go, WAR surely ranks as important enough to celebrate.
WAR’s second album without Eric Burdon, All Day Music was released in November 1971 on United Artists Records.