Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford

Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford
Everlast studio album
Publication (s)	September 23, 2008
Label (s)	Martyr Inc. Hickory Records TRP Records PIAS Recordings
Format (s)	CD · Download
Genre (s)	Alternative rock · Blues rock
Title (number)	19th
running time	62:36
production	Everlast · DJ Lethal · DJ Muggs · Keefus Ciancia
chronology White Trash Beautiful (2004) Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford Songs of the Ungrateful Living (2011)

Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford is the fifth studio album by the American rapper and singer Everlast . It was released on September 23, 2008 via the Martyr Inc., Hickory Records, TRP Records and PIAS Recordings labels. Videos were shot for the songs Letter Home From The Garden Of Stone , Folsom Prison Blues (which is a cover by Johnny Cash ) and Stone in My Hand . DJ Lethal , who formed the group House of Pain together with Everlast in the 1990s, was involved in the production of the album .

background

In an interview with laut.de , which was published on December 29, 2008, Everlast replied to the question of why Islam is only now (Everlast has been a converted Muslim since 1997) and that you as an artist are playing a bigger role in his music "Must provoke" . In Kill the Emperor or in Stone In My Hand he makes “concrete statements” that would “shake people up” . But this doesn't necessarily have anything to do with Islam. The media would have made Islam a new "black man" . In the past, Russia was "the villain" , today it is " jihad " .

Everlast distanced himself from terrorists and jihad and declared: “My existence as a Muslim is a private thing, I don't talk much about the“ why ”, that's my business. In any case, I don't run around preaching to people to convert to Islam. I say: There are many ways to God - follow yours. And in the end, this path was recommended to me on my way. I had a choice and I made up my mind. "

When asked why the album was conspicuously political, Everlast replied in an interview with Blick that as an artist he felt obliged to express certain grievances, even if he did not see himself as a political artist. He often sees things in the media that would make him "angry" and he only has the music to express himself. It was not originally his intention to produce a particularly political album, "it just happened" .

Cover

On the cover you can see Everlast's face in close-up. He is wearing dark sunglasses, below it is written in white letters and in block letters "EVERLAST" and again underneath, this time in gray, "Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford" . The background on the cover is black, on closer inspection you can see Arabic characters . The entire appearance is black and white with the exception of red decorations.

Track list

#	title	length
1.	Kill The Emperor	3:24
2.	Folsom Prison Blues	3:27
3.	Stone In My Hand	3:32
4th	Anyone	4:12
5.	The In Yer 'Arms	3:40
6th	Friend	3:23
7th	Everyone	5:38
8th.	Naked	4:04
9.	Stay	4:58
10.	Letters Home From The Garden Of Stone	4:07
11.	Tuesday mornin '	3:59
12.	Throw A Stone	0:29
13.	Weakness	5:06
14th	Dirty	3:53
15th	The ocean	3:44
16.	Let it go	4:30

Bonus songs:

#	title	length
17th	Saving Grace	3:06
18th	My Medicine (Demo)	3:13
19th	Maybe	3:49

Charts

album

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2008	Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford	DE61 (1 week) DE	-	CH15 (5 weeks) CH	-	US78 (1 week) US	First published: September 23, 2008

criticism

Professional reviews
Reviews
source	rating
laut.de
Allmusic
Rolling Stone
HOT PRESS

Max Brandl of laut.de wrote that in the album - it can be as the title suggests - go to war, it was "a challenge to the authorities and 'the system' US of A." . As far as the sound characteristics are concerned, the listener could see an increased turn to Everlast's Islamic creed. With Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford , Everlast did not reach “any new highs”, but did not lower the bar for “seasoned men’s heartbreak songs” either , so it didn’t sound any worse than the previous albums . On the album, Everlast relies on the "tried and tested" , namely guitars, strings and drums, all of which are recorded live. Together this results in a "great, melancholy soundtrack" . Overall, you don't hear much about Everlast's "rap roots", but Everlast compensates his fans with a "soulful, powerful and grown-up piece of Ford coolness."

Gunther Reinhardt of Rolling Stone is of the opinion that Love, War, and the Ghost of Whitey Ford sounds "more or less the same" as his previous albums, but is still good. There go "back to guns and prisons, death and the devil to white trash dramas" and the "revival of the blues with the means of hip-hop." . Everlast tells of "mistakes" that still have to be made or of mistakes that have already happened. Reinhardt praised Everlast's lyrics in the two songs Kill the Emporer and Naked , in which the listener feels transported back to Everlast's time at House of Pain . Finally, Reinhardt wrote again that Love, War, and the Ghost of Whitey Ford was nothing new, but that this fact probably didn't bother anyone but Everlast himself.

Web links

• Album profile on the discogs website
• Love, War, & the Ghost of Whitey Ford on rateyourmusic.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Max Brandl: "Dachau is not a happy place!" . laut.de . December 29, 2008. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
2. ↑ Gabriel Brönnimann: "Extreme Muslims want me to forbid music" . Look . Retrieved December 18, 2015.
3. ↑ Max Brandl: Powerful and soulful staged coolness. . laut.de . Retrieved December 18, 2015.
4. ^ David Jeffries: AllMusic Review by David Jeffries . Allmusic . Retrieved December 18, 2015.
5. ^ Gunther Reinhardt: Everlast - Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford . Rolling Stone . September 11, 2008. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
6. ↑ Edwin McFee: WHITE RAPPER RUNS OUT OF PUFF . HOT PRESS. November 4, 2008. Retrieved December 18, 2015.