Stop the War
2010 · Beeble Music BB802 · USA
- Artist
- Sugar Blue
- Title
- Stop the War
- Release
- Threshold
- Year
- 2010
- Label
- Beeble Music # BB802
- Format
- CD · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Blues · Chicago Blues
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Blues songs
Blues artist, born James Whiting, on 16 December 1949 in New York, USA. The song "Stop the War" (Beeble Music # BB802), released in 2010, is an anti-war track, not specifically mentioning a conflict, although the artist served in the Vietnam War (1970-73), so a Vietnam veteran's interpretation.1 The first line states his view, "they call it war, I call it murder". It focuses on hypocrisy, "in the name of freedom, to protect we must destroy". It notes the weapons have changed through history, but it's still war, "from the arrow to the uzi, mechanized insanity".Sources1Antiwar Songs↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Track 4. Digipak; recorded at Rax Trax Studios, Chicago, IL; licensed to Beeble Music. Barcode 884501218641. Musicians: Sugar Blue vocals, Rico McFarland and Sergio Montaleni guitar, Ilaria Lantieri and Jesse Cross bass, James Knowles drums, Damiano Della Torre accordion/keyboards.
About the artist
Sugar Blue (born James Joshua Whiting, 16 December 1949, New York City) is a blues harmonica player known for his playing on the Rolling Stones' "Miss You" and his work with Willie Dixon's Chicago Blues All Stars. [Source: Wikipedia]