Even More All Day Music: WAR GREATEST HITS 2.0

By 1976, Long Beach rockers WAR needed a break. The band's non-stop touring schedule in support of a string of hit records found Lonnie Jordan and company ready to kick back and recharge their collective batteries. Thanks to that run of hit records, the timing was perfect for War to release the group's very first greatest hits collection. The LP was packed with classics including "Low Rider," "Why Can't We Be Friends?", and "Slippin' Into Darkness." With all of that rock 'n' roll energy loaded onto one record, the collection shot up the charts, peaking at #6 on the Billboard 200 for the week of September 25, 1976. The #1 album in America that week: Frampton Comes Alive.

All these years later, and those songs and their messages still resonate across the country today. It's a perfect time to reintroduce those classics to a new generation in the form of WAR Greatest Hits 2.0, which takes that original 1976 track list and more than doubles it with an additional rarities disc, now loaded with 24 of the band's best tracks. The collection arrives on November 12, 2021.

"Back in the day, a lot of people didn't identify War with our songs," longtime bandleader Lonnie Jordan told the Coachella Valley Independent in October 2021 about keeping the music alive. "They knew the songs, but they didn't know the band. It's crucial to me for people to come out and see this billboard outside that says 'War.' They hear all the songs, and I let them know that these are our songs. This is what put us here, including them. This is how we all came together as one. Our fans and us, we're all one."