Low Rider Lyrics

"Low Rider" is a song written by the band War and appearing on their album Why Can't We Be Friends?, released in 1975. It reached number one on the Billboard R&B charts and peaked at number 7 on the Pop Singles chart. According to the All Music Guide review of the song, "the lyric takes the cool image of the "Low Rider" — the Chicano culture practice of hydraulically hot-rodding classic cars — and using innuendo, extends the image to a lifestyle".[1] The song's most distinguishable feature is its driving bass line, which is present for nearly all of the song. It also ends with a siren-like noise that then becomes a saxophone solo. The writers and performers of "Low Rider" have formed the Lowrider Band. The band consists of Lee Oskar, Howard E. Scott, B.B. Dickerson and Harold Brown. Cover versions * The song has been covered by the following artists: o Blues Traveler o Peter Cetera o George Clinton o Epsilon Minus o Exodus o Gary Hoey o JFA o Terry Kath o Korn o Latin Alliance o Phish o Popa Chubby featuring Galea o Quando Quango o Son of Dave o Barry White o Yukon Kornelius o ZZ Top * "Low Rider" was sampled by The Offspring in the remix version of "Pretty Fly For A White Guy". * War's "Low Rider" was also significantly sampled by The Beastie Boys for their track "Slow Ride" on the 1986 album Licensed to Ill. * The song "Jorge Regula" by The Moldy Peaches borrowed the main riff from "Low Rider." * Sublime sampled the song in the bassline of Forman Freestyle on disc 2 of their posthumous release Everything Under the Sun.