Santana (album)

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Santana
Studio album from Santana

Publication
(s)

August 1969

Label (s) Columbia Records

Format (s)

LP (CD)

Genre (s)

Latin rock , blues rock , jazz rock

Title (number)

9 (12)

running time

37:29 (61:45)

occupation
  • José Chepito Areas: Timbales , Conga, Percussion

production

Brent Dangerfield and Santana

Studio (s)

Pacific Recording, San Mateo , California

chronology
- Santana Abraxas
(1970)

Santana is the debut album by the Latin rock band Santana from San Francisco . It was released on Columbia Records in August 1969 shortly after the band performed at the Woodstock Festival .

The album

Since its formation as the Carlos Santana Blues Band , the band had built a reputation as a live band in the Bay Area and was one of the main bands in Bill Graham's Fillmore West . The band's appearance in Woodstock was one of the most exciting of the festival. The album contains mostly improvised instrumental pieces from the band's live program at the time, as well as two cover versions, Jingo and Evil Ways , both of which were selected for single release. On the album you can already hear the percussion-heavy Latin rock that is typical for Santana, characterized by rock guitar and organ sounds.

The cover, which shows a lion's head in the form of a picture puzzle, whose face is formed from human heads and bodies, was originally created by Lee Conklin in 1968 for a concert event at Fillmore West. a. Grateful Dead occurred. Following a request from Carlos Santana, it was used as an album cover.

reception

Santana reached number 4 on the Billboard 200 and the single Evil Ways reached the top ten of the singles charts. The earlier released song Jingo was less successful.

According to Carl Hoyt from allmusic , "Santana has its own department in the Latin Rock Hall of Fame, neither playing Afro-Cuban with rock guitar like Malo nor mainstream rock spicing up with percussion like Chicago ." He gave the album four and a half stars out of five.

The album ranks 149th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time . It "reveals Carlos Santana's unique blend of Latin American rhythms, rock guitar and lyrical blues."

Track list

page 1

  1. Waiting (Santana) - 4:07
  2. Evil Ways (Clarence "Sonny" Henry) - 3:58
  3. Shades of Time (Rolie / Santana) - 3:13
  4. Savor (Santana / Rolie / Areas / Brown / Carabello / Shrieve) - 2:47
  5. Jingo ( Babatunde Olatunji ) - 4:23

Page 2

  1. Persuasion (Santana / Rolie / Areas / Brown / Carabello / Shrieve) - 2:36
  2. Treat (Santana / Rolie / Areas / Brown / Carabello / Shrieve) - 4:46
  3. You Just Don't Care (Santana / Rolie / Areas / Brown / Carabello / Shrieve) - 4:37
  4. Soul Sacrifice (Santana / Rolie / Marcus Malone / David Brown) - 6:34

CD

The 1998 CD release also includes the tracks recorded at the Woodstock Festival (Saturday, August 16, 1969):

  2. Savor (Santana / Rolie / Areas / Brown / Carabello / Shrieve) - 5:27
  3. Soul Sacrifice (Santana / Rolie / Marcus Malone / David Brown) - 11:39 *
  4. Fried Neckbones ( Willie Bobo / Melvin Lastie) - 7:13

* Already released on the Woodstock album (Cotillion SD3-500), July 1970

Remarks

  1. ↑ Jorge Santana, Carlos Santana's brother, played in this band

proof

  1. ↑ a b Cover Story - Santana's Santana
  2. ↑ Santana in Rolling Stone
  3. ↑ The concert poster
  4. ↑ Santana in the US charts at Allmusic (English)
  5. ↑ Santana at Allmusic (English)
  6. ↑ Santana in the RS list
  7. ↑ Title of the CD at discogs

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