Latter-day fans of War's more commercially successful later singles, including the classic "Low Rider" and "Why Can't We Be Friends?" may be unaware that the band was originally formed as a new project for British-born R&B/pop singer Eric Burdon after the dissolution of the Animals.
Burdon hired a black L.A.
funk band, added Danish harmonica player Lee Oskar, and released two groundbreaking, if occasionally somewhat self-indulgent albums at the end of the '60s: ERIC BURDON DECLARES WAR and THE BLACK MAN'S BURDON.
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