War Live (album)

War Live
Live album by War
Released	February 1974
Recorded	November 25, 1972
Venue	High Chaparral, Chicago, Illinois[1]
Length	76:26
Label	United Artists
Producer	Jerry Goldstein, in association with Lonnie Jordan and Howard Scott
War chronology
Deliver the Word (1973) War Live (1974) Why Can't We Be Friends? (1975)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Christgau's Record Guide	C+[3]

War Live is the first live album by American band War, recorded during a four-night engagement at Chicago's High Chapparral club and released as a double LP on United Artists Records in 1973.^[4] The album was reissued on Rhino Records as a double disc CD on 1992 September 15 ^[5] and again on 2008 March 31.^[6]

The album contains a mere seven songs, including "Ballero" which was previously unreleased. Many of the songs appear in extended versions, two of them filling an LP side apiece. By the contrast, "Lonely Feelin'" appears as a short instrumental version of the song from the first War album of 1971. One single was taken from the album: "Ballero" / "Slippin' into Darkness" (both heavily edited for single release), which charted at #33 on the USA pop chart, and #17 on the R&B singles charts.^{[citation needed]}. The album sold 1.5 million copies.^[7]