This War Ain't Right
1970 · Kent KST-549 · Los Angeles, California
- Artist
- Guitar Slim Green
- Title
- This War Ain't Right
- Release
- Stone Down Blues
- Year
- 1970
- Label
- Kent # KST-549
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Johnny Otis
- Genre
- Blues · Electric Blues
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Guitar Slim Green, obscure blues artist, born on 25 July 1907 in Bryan, Texas, USA, and died 28 September 1975 in Los Angeles, California, USA. The song "This War Ain't Right" (Kent Records # KST-549) composed by Johnny Otis, takes an anti-war position, describing the conflict as a "lowdown dirty shame". It notes the incursion into Cambodia under the Nixon-era, which re-stirred the anti-war movement: "I got a brother in Cambodia, and I got one dead in Vietnam". Like some of the other blues & soul songs of the era, the song looked at the issue of Civil Rights and the treatment of African-American in the US, with the narrator noting "I've got to go kill a brown man for the white man".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
born on 25 July 1907 in Bryan, Texas, USA, and died 28 September 1975 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Themes
Anti-War · Civil Rights · Cambodia · Nixon
In collections
Blues songs · Civil Rights Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs