Ballad of The Broken Seas: Vinyl LP Blood Wizard WAR’s head-nodding mix of music

WAR’s head-nodding mix of music and message started a revolution 50 years ago that continues to win over the hearts and hips of fans around the world

“The album definitely leans heavier than some of the previous ones

C3        Kiss Land

when the band was riding the crest of their popularity

Don’t Say U Love Me

Ballad of The Broken Seas: Vinyl LP Blood Wizard WAR’s head-nodding mix of musicThere's a certain "beauty & the beast" quality to the greatest male female, singer songwriter duos. Consider Jane Birkin hooking up with Serge Gainsbourg, or Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood. And so it is with "Ballad of the Broken Seas", an album length collaboration between Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan. There's a similar contrast between Isobel's aching, pristine chill of a voice and Lanegan's wounded, regret stewed burr. "While duets have been