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The Essential Santana (CD)

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DISC 1 for The Essential Santana (CD) Album By Santana (Artist)
1   Jingo
2   Evil Ways
3   Soul Sacrifice
4   Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen
5   Oye Como Va
6   Samba Pa Ti
7   Everybody's Everything
8   No One To Depend On
9   Toussaint L'Overture
10   Guajira
11   La Fuente Del Ritmo
12   In A Silent Way - (live)
13   Love, Devotion And Surrender
14   Mirage
15   Carnaval
16   Let The Children Play
17   Jugando
 
DISC 2 for The Essential Santana (CD) Album By Santana (Artist)
1   She's Not There
2   Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana) - (live)
3   Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)
4   Stormy
5   Well All Right
6   Open Invitation
7   Aquamarine
8   You Know That I Love You
9   All I Ever Wanted
10   Winning
11   Hold On
12   Nowhere To Run
13   Say It Again
14   Veracruz
15   Blues For Salvador
16   Healer, The - (featuring John Lee Hooker)
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (10/25/02, pp.73-4) - "...the timelessness of Santana's blend of thwacking percussion, pop bombast, and emotive guitar remains a marvel..." - Rating: B+

Title Note

Santana includes: Carlos Santana (vocals, electric guitar); Greg Rolie (vocals, organ, keyboards); Neal Schon (electric guitar); Michael Shrieve (drums); Pete Escovedo (percussion).

Additional personnel: John Lee Hooker (vocals).

Producers include: Brent Dangerfield, Fred Catero, Carlos Santana, Michael Shrieve, Bill Graham.

Compilation producer: Bob Irwin.

Recorded between 1969 & 1989. Includes liner notes by Ted Drozdowski.

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

Though they first came to prominence in the '60s psychedelic era amid many other forward-looking West Coast bands, Santana always stood out from the pack. Their mixture of atmospheric-yet-visceral rock with Latin rhythms and jazz touches made them unique at the time. Though many lesser bands followed in their footsteps (Anybody remember Macondo? Azteca? Didn't think so.), no one ever came close to the Santana sound. For those poor benighted souls who think Santana's story began with jillion-selling comeback album SUPERNATURAL, this effective two-disc anthology provides a perfect history lesson.

The first disc is full of the Quicksilver Messenger Service-meets-Tito Puente Latin pscyh jams that made Carlos and the boys famous ("Black Magic Woman," "Evil Ways," etc.). As the '70s wore on, Santana leaned towards a more jazz-fusion-oriented approach, also ably documented here ("In a Silent Way," "Love, Devotion & Surrender"). Though many decry the later output featured on disc two, it's only Santana's Clive Davis/comeback era (not covered here) that's truly execrable by fan standards. Sure, there's more of a mainstream pop-rock feel to the band's early-'80s, Alex Ligertwood-fronted phase, but who wants an artist to stand still for their entire career. Besides, 1980 hit "Winning" is the best song Steve Winwood never wrote.

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