The Black-Man's Burdon

The 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 in response to the poem, "The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling, which refers to western imperialism. 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. The extra material is mostly instrumental, except for "P.C. 3", a risqué poem recited 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...". From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bla...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)