01	Waiting						04:07
	02	Evil Ways						04:00
	03	Shades Of Time						03:13
	04	Savor						02:47
	05	Jingo						04:23
	06	Persuasion						02:36
	07	Treat						04:46
	08	You Just Don't Care						04:37
	09	Soul Sacrifice						06:47
	10	Savor (Live from Woodstock)						05:29
	11	Soul Sacrifice (Live from Woodstock)						11:38
	12	Fried Neckbones (Live from Woodstock)						07:13

9 original tracks, plus 3 bonus tracks recorded at Woodstock


Santana
Date of Release Aug 1969
Styles Rock & Roll, Blues-Rock, Hard Rock, Psychedelic, Album Rock, Latin Rock

Released in 1969, the group's first album shot the group from local San Francisco band status to a worldwide forum. Included were the group's first hits ("Evil Ways" and "Soul Sacrifice") and others that combined Latin grooves with a rock sensibility. The newly remastered compact disc also adds three bonus tracks recorded live at Woodstock in 1969, "Savor, " "Soul Sacrifice," and "Fried Neckbones." - Cub Koda

1. Waiting (Santana) - 4:07
2. Evil Ways (Henry/Zack) - 4:00
3. Shades of Time (Santana) - 3:14
4. Savor (Santana) - 2:46
5. Jingo (Olatunji/Santana) - 4:23
6. Persuasion - 2:37
7. Treat (Santana) - 4:46
8. You Just Don't Care (Areas/Brown/Carabello/Rolie/Santana/Shrieve) - 4:37
9. Soul Sacrifice - 6:38
10. Savor [live/#/*] (Santana) - 5:29
11. Soul Sacrifice [live/*] - 11:38
12. Fried Neck Bones and Some Homefries [live/#/*] - 7:13

Michael Shrieve - Drums
Neal Schon - Guitar
Tower of Power - Horn
Luis Gasca - Trumpet
Josй Chepitу Areas - Percussion, Conga, Timbales, Timbales
Gregg Rolie - Organ, Piano, Keyboards, Vocals
Coke Escovedo - Percussion
David Brown - Bass
Mike Carabello - Percussion, Percussion, Conga
Alberto Gianquinto - Arranger
Lawrence Cohn - Reissue Producer
Jim Marshall - Photography, Cover Photo
Carlos Santana - Guitar, Vocals, Producer
Kevin Boutote - Mastering
Maitreya Michael Shrieve - Drums
Lee Conklin - Cover Art
Brent Dangerfield - Producer

1998 CD Columbia/Legacy 65489
1998 CS Columbia/Legacy 65489
Columbia Pcq-32964
1968 LP Columbia 9781
1995 CD Columbia 64212
CS Columbia PCT-692
1969 Columbia 09781
CD Columbia 9781
1990 CD Sony 9781
1990 CS Sony 9781
1994 CD Sony 64212
1995 CD Columbia 64212
2000 CD Sony International 489542
CD Columbia CK-9781



Santana
Formed 1966 in San Francisco, CA

Group Members Michael Shrieve Buddy Miles Neal Schon Jules Broussard Tom Coster Pete Escovedo Leon Thomas Luis Gasca Armando Peraza Greg Walker Josй Chepitу Areas Gregg Rolie Jorge Santana Coke Escovedo Leon Patillo Joel Badie Richard Baker David Brown Mike Carabello Leon "Ndugu" Chancler Walfredo Reyes Greg Errico Wendy Haas Alphonso Johnson Richard Kermode Graham Lear James Mingo Lewis Alex Ligertwood Tony Lindsay David Margen Karl Perazzo Luther Rabb Doug Rauch Benny Rietveld Raul Rekow Rico Reyes Chris Rhyme Douglas Rodriguez Curtis Salgado Chris Solberg Chester Thompson Orestes Vilato Carlos Santana Vorriece Cooper

Styles Latin Rock, Album Rock, Pop/Rock, Psychedelic, Fusion, Hard Rock, Blues-Rock

by William Ruhlmann

Santana is the primary exponent of Latin-tinged rock, particularly due to its combination of Latin percussion (congas, timbales, etc.) with bandleader Carlos Santana's distinctive, high-pitched lead guitar playing. The group was the last major act to emerge from the psychedelic San Francisco music scene of the 1960s and it enjoyed massive success at the end of the decade and into the early '70s. The musical direction then changed to a more contemplative and jazzy style as the band's early personnel gradually departed, leaving the name in the hands of Carlos Santana, who guided the group to consistent commercial success over the next quarter-century. By the mid-'90s, Santana seemed spent as a commercial force on records, though the group continued to attract audiences for its concerts worldwide. But the band made a surprising and monumental comeback in 1999 with Supernatural, an album featuring many guest stars that became Santana's best-selling release and won a raft of Grammy Awards.
Mexican-native Carlos Santana (born July 20, 1947, in Autlan de Navarro, Mexico) moved to San Francisco in the early '60s, by which time he was already playing the guitar professionally. In 1966, he formed the Santana Blues Band with keyboard player and singer Gregg Rolie (born June 17, 1947, in Seattle, WA) and other musicians, the personnel changing frequently. The group was given its name due to a musicians union requirement that a single person be named a band's leader and it did not at first indicate that Carlos was in charge. Bass player David Brown (born February 15, 1947, in New York, NY) joined early on, as did Carlos' high school friend, conga player Mike Carabello (born November 18, 1947, in San Francisco), though he did not stay long at first. By mid-1967, the band's lineup consisted of Carlos, Rolie, Brown, drummer Bob "Doc" Livingston, and percussionist Marcus Malone. The name was shortened simply to Santana and the group came to the attention of promoter Bill Graham, who gave it its debut at his Fillmore West theater on June 16, 1968. Santana was signed to Columbia Records, which sent producer David Rubinson to tape the band at a four-night stand at the Fillmore West December 19-22, 1968. The results were not released until almost 30 years later, when Columbia/Legacy issued Live at the Fillmore 1968 in 1997.

Livingston and Malone left the lineup in 1969 and were replaced by Carabello and drummer Michael Shrieve (born July 6, 1949, in San Francisco), with a second percussionist, Jose "Chepito" Areas (born July 25, 1946, in Leon, Nicaragua) making Santana a sextet. The band recorded its self-titled debut album and began to tour nationally, making an important stop at the Woodstock festival on August 15, 1969. Santana was released the same month. It peaked in the Top Five, going on to remain in the charts over two years, sell over two million copies, and spawn the Top 40 single "Jingo" and the Top Ten single "Evil Ways." Santana's performance of "Soul Sacrifice" was a highlight of the documentary film Woodstock and its double-platinum soundtrack album, which appeared in 1970. The band's second album, Abraxas, was released in September 1970 and was even more successful than its first. It hit number one, remaining in the charts more than a-year-and-a-half and eventually selling over four million copies while spawning the Top Five hit "Black Magic Woman" and the Top Ten hit "Oye Como Va." By the end of the year, the group had added a seventh member, teenage guitarist Neal Schon (born February 27, 1954).

Santana's third album, Santana III, was performed by the seven band members, though several guest musicians were also mentioned in the credits, notably percussionist Coke Escovedo, who played on all the tracks. Released in September 1971, the album was another massive hit, reaching number one and eventually selling over two million copies while spawning the Top Ten hit "Everybody's Everything" and the Top 20 hit "No One to Depend On." But it marked the end of the Woodstock-era edition of Santana, which broke up at the end of the tour promoting it, with Carlos retaining rights to the band name.

Following a tour with Buddy Miles that resulted in a live duo album (Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live!), Carlos reorganized Santana and recorded the fourth Santana band album, Caravanserai, on which each track featured individual musician credits. From the previous lineup, Rolie, Shrieve, Areas, and Schon appeared, alongside pianist Tom Coster, percussionist James Mingo Lewis, percussionist Armando Peraza, guitarist/bassist Douglas Rauch, and percussionist Rico Reyes, among others. (Rolie and Schon left to form Journey.) The album was released in September 1972; it peaked in the Top Five and was eventually certified platinum. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance with Vocal Coloring.

Carlos, who had become a disciple of the guru Sri Chinmoy and adopted the name Devadip (meaning "the eye, the lamp, and the light of God"), next made a duo album with John McLaughlin, guitarist with the Mahavishnu Orchestra (Love Devotion Surrender). Meanwhile, the lineup of Santana continued to fluctuate. On Welcome, the band's fifth album, released in November 1973, it consisted of Carlos, Shrieve, Areas, Coster, Peraza, Rauch, keyboard player Richard Kermode, and singer Leon Thomas. The album went gold and peaked in the Top 20. In May 1974, Lotus, a live album featuring the same lineup, was released only in Japan. (It was issued in the U.S. in 1991.) Carlos continued to alternate side projects with Santana band albums, next recording a duo LP with John Coltrane's widow Alice Coltrane (Illuminations). Columbia decided to cash in on the band's diminishing popularity by releasing Santana's Greatest Hits in July 1974. The compilation peaked in the Top 20 and eventually went double platinum. The sixth new Santana album, Borboletta, followed in October. The band personnel for the LP featured Carlos, Shrieve, Areas, Coster, Peraza, a returning David Brown, saxophonist Jules Broussard, and singer Leon Patillo, plus guest stars Flora Purim, Airto Moreira, and Stanley Clarke. Borboletta peaked in the Top 20 and eventually went gold. Carlos steered Santana back to a more commercial sound in the mid-'70s in an attempt to stop the eroding sales of the band's albums. He enlisted Santana's original producer, David Rubinson, to handle the next LP. The band was streamlined to a sextet consisting of himself, Coster, Peraza, Brown, drummer Ndugu Leon Chancler (Shrieve having departed to work with Stomu Yamashta), and singer Greg Walker. The result was Amigos, released in March 1976, which returned Santana to the Top Ten and went gold. The band was back only nine months later with another Rubinson production, Festival, for which Santana consisted of Carlos, Coster, returning members Jose "Chepito" Areas and Leon Patillo, drummer Gaylord Birch, percussionist Raul Rekow, and bass player Pablo Telez. This album peaked in the Top 40 and went gold. Never having issued a live album in the U.S., Santana made up for the lapse with Moonflower, released in October 1977, for which the band consisted of Carlos, Coster, Areas, Rekow, Telez, returning member Greg Walker, percussionist Pete Escovedo, drummer Graham Lear, and bass player David Margen. The album peaked in the Top Ten and eventually went platinum, its sales stimulated by the single release of a revival of the Zombies' "She's Not There" that peaked in the Top 20, Santana's first hit single in nearly six years.

Turning to producers Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, Santana returned to the studio for Inner Secrets, released in October 1978. The revamped lineup this time was Carlos, Rekow, Walker, Lear, Margen, returning members Coke Escovedo and Armando Peraza, keyboard player Chris Rhyne, and guitarist/keyboard player Chris Solberg. The album was quickly certified gold, and a revival of the Classics IV hit "Stormy" made the Top 40, but Inner Secrets peaked disappointingly below the Top 20. Once again adopting his guru name of Devadip, Carlos issued his first real solo album (Oneness/Silver Dreams - Golden Reality) in February 1979. Marathon, the tenth Santana band studio album, followed in September, produced by Keith Olsen, the band here being Carlos, Rekow, Lear, Margen, Peraza, Solberg, singer Alex Ligertwood, and keyboard player Alan Pasqua. The album equaled the success of Inner Secrets, peaking outside the Top 20 but going gold, with "You Know That I Love You" becoming a Top 40 single. Again, Carlos followed in the winter with another solo effort (the Swing of Delight).

Santana (Carlos, Rekow, Lear, Margen, Peraza, Ligertwood, keyboard player Richard Baker, and percussionist Orestes Vilato) spent some extra time on its next release, not issuing Zebop! until March 1981, and the extra effort paid off. Paced by the Top 20 single "Winning," the album reached the Top Ten and went gold. The band lavished similar attention on Shango, which was released in August 1982. The same lineup as that on Zebop! was joined by original member Gregg Rolie, who also co-produced the album. A music video helped Santana enjoy its first Top Ten single in more than a decade with "Hold On," but that did not translate into increased sales for the album, which peaked in the Top 20 but became the band's first LP not to at least go gold. Carlos followed with another solo album (Havana Moon), but did not release a new Santana band album until February 1985 with Beyond Appearances, produced by Val Garay. By now the lineup consisted of Carlos, Rekow, Peraza, Ligertwood, Vilato, returning member Greg Walker, bass player Alphonso Johnson, keyboard player David Sancious, drummer Chester C. Thompson, and keyboard player Chester D. Thompson. "Say It Again," the album's single, reached the Top 40, but that was better than the LP did.

Santana staged a 20-year anniversary reunion concert in August 1986 featuring many past bandmembers. The February 1987 album Freedom marked the formal inclusion of Buddy Miles as a member of Santana, alongside Carlos, Rekow, Peraza, Vilato, Johnson, Chester D. Thompson, and returning members Tom Coster and Graham Lear. The album barely made the Top 100. Carlos followed in the fall with another solo album (Blues for Salvador), winning his first Grammy Award in the process (Best Rock Instrumental Performance for the title track). In 1988, he added Wayne Shorter to the band for a tour, then put together a reunion edition of Santana that featured Areas, Rolie, and Shrieve beside Johnson, Peraza, and Thompson. In October, Columbia celebrated the 20-year anniversary of the band's signing to the label with the retrospective Viva Santana! The next new Santana album was Spirits Dancing in the Flesh, released in June 1990, for which the band was Carlos, Peraza, Thompson, returning member Alex Ligertwood, drummer Walfredo Reyes, and bass player Benny Rietveld. A modest seller that made only the lower reaches of the Top 100, it marked the end of the band's 22-year tenure at Columbia Records.

In 1991, Santana signed to Polydor Records, which, in April 1992, released the band's 16th studio album, Milagro. The lineup was Carlos, Thompson, Ligertwood, Reyes, Rietvald, and percussionist Karl Perazzo. Polydor was not able to reverse the band's commercial decline, as the album became Santana's first new studio release not to reach the Top 100. The group followed in November 1993 with Sacred Fire - Live in South America, which featured Carlos, Thompson, Ligertwood, Reyes, Perazzo, singer Vorriece Cooper, bass player Myron Dove, and guitarist Jorge Santana, Carlos' brother. The album barely made the charts. In 1994, Carlos, Jorge, and their nephew Carlos Hernandez, released Santana Brothers, another marginal chart entry. The same year, Areas, Carabello, Rolie, and Shrieve formed a band called Abraxas and released the album Abraxas Pool, which did not chart.

Santana left Polydor and signed briefly to EMI before moving to Arista Records, run by Clive Davis, who had been president of Columbia during the band's heyday. Carlos and Davis put together Supernatural, which was stuffed with appearances by high-profile guest stars including Eagle-Eye Cherry, Wyclef Jean, Eric Clapton, Lauryn Hill, Rob Thomas of matchbox 20, Everlast, and Dave Matthews. Arista released the album in June 1999, followed by the single "Smooth" featuring Rob Thomas. Album and single hit number one and in 2000, a second single, "Maria Maria," also topped the charts. Supernatural's sales exploded, taking it past ten million copies and the album garnered 11 Grammy nominations. Santana won eight Grammys, for Record of the Year ("Smooth"), Album of the Year, Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal ("Maria Maria"), Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals ("Smooth"), Best Pop Instrumental Performance ("El Farol"), Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal ("Put Your Lights On"), Best Rock Instrumental Performance ("The Calling"), and Best Rock Album, and "Smooth" won the Grammy for Song of the Year for authors Rob Thomas and Itaal Shur.


1969 Santana Columbia/Legac
1970 Abraxas Columbia
1971 Santana III Columbia/Legac
1972 Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live! Columbia
1972 Caravanserai Columbia
1972 Love Devotion Surrender Columbia
1973 Welcome Columbia
1974 Lotus [live] Columbia
1974 Illuminations Columbia
1974 Borboletta Columbia
1976 Amigos Columbia
1977 Festival Columbia
1977 Moonflower Columbia
1978 Inner Secrets Columbia
1979 Oneness: Silver Dreams Golden Realities Columbia
1979 Marathon Columbia
1980 The Swing of Delight Columbia
1981 Zebop! Columbia
1982 Shango Columbia
1983 Havana Moon Columbia
1985 Beyond Appearances Columbia
1985 Live Columbia
1987 Freedom Columbia
1987 Blues for Salvador Columbia
1990 Spirits Dancing in the Flesh Columbia
1992 Milagro Polydor
1993 Sacred Fire: Santana Live in South America Polydor
1994 Santana Brothers Polygram
1995 Soul Sacrifice [Retro Music] Prime Cuts
1995 Brothers Island
1997 Live at the Fillmore 1968 Columbia/Legac
1998 Santana [Japan Bonus Tracks] Import
1998 Santana III [Japan Bonus Tracks] Import
1998 Abraxas [Bonus Tracks] Columbia/Legac
1998 Jam Live Serv Rite
1999 Supernatural Arista
1999 Hot Tamales New Sound
1999 Forever Gold [Single Disc] St. Clair
2000 Center Stage: Live Direct Source
2000 Jingo-Manic BMG
2001 Mother Earth Akarma
2001 Nuclei, Vol. 2 Thunderbolt
2001 San Francisco Mission District Live 69 Akarma
2001 Fried Neckbones and Home Fries Yeaah
2001 Live in Concert & The Royal Albert Hall Flip Disc
2002 Prologue Thunderbolt
2002 Shaman Arista
2002 Fillmore Performance: San Francisco 1968 [live] Cleopatra
2003 Magic Rhythms Prism
2003 Moonflower [Bonus Tracks] Sony
2003 Welcome [Bonus Track] Sony
2003 Caravanserai [Bonus Tracks] Legacy
2003 Welcome [bonus tracks] Legacy
2003 Moonflower [Bonus Tracks] Legacy
2003 Love Devotion Surrender [Bonus Tracks] Legacy
S.F. Mission District: Live '69 Akarma

1974 Greatest Hits Columbia
1982 The Sound of Carlos Pair
1988 Viva Santana! [Columbia/Sony] Columbia
1989 Early Magic Pair
1989 Persuasion [Magnum] Magnum
1991 Best of Santana [2 CD] Sony Special
1992 Ballads Collection Alex
1992 Australian Collection Alex
1994 Very Best of Santana [Alex] Alex
1994 Super Collection Import
1994 Ballads
1994 Santana Jam [1994] Prime Cuts
1994 Santana Jam [1999] Onyx Classix
1994 Soul Sacrifice [Onyx Classix] Onyx Classix
1994 Jin-Go-Lo-Ba Onyx Classix
1995 Love Songs Alex Imports
1995 Dance of the Rainbow Serpent Columbia/Legac x
1995 25 Hits Tristar
1995 Salsa Samba & Santana Tristar
1995 Samba Pa Ti Tristar
1995 Star Box Tristar x
1995 Evolution: Original Recordings Thunderbolt
1995 Best Of [3 Album Box] Boxsets x
1995 Definitive Collection [2 CD] Sony
1995 The Best of Santana [Intercontinental] Columbia
1996 Guaranteed Fresh Boxsets
1996 Definitive Collection [Single CD] Tristar
1997 Evil Ways [Delta] Delta
1997 Jingo Delta
1997 Collector's Edition Intercontinent
1997 Santana/Abraxas/Santana Sony x
1997 Greatest Hits Live, Vol. 1 Galaxy
1997 Greatest Hits Live, Vol. 2 Galaxy
1997 Greatest Hits Live, Vol. 3 Galaxy
1997 Guitar Hero BMG
1997 Summerdreams Globo/Columbia
1997 The Ultimate Collection Sony x
1997 The Masters [Eagle] Eagle
1998 The Best of Santana [Columbia] Columbia/Legac
1998 Between Good and Evil Sony
1998 Santana/Abraxas/Santana [Remastered] Sony x
1998 Latin Rhythm & Blues Hallmark
1998 The Best Instrumentals Sony
1998 Guitar Legends Boxsets
1998 Awakening Charly
1998 Masters [Cleopatra] Cleopatra
1998 Santana [Compilation] Bell
1998 Latin Tropical [Magnum] Magnum
1999 Acapulco Sunrise Magnum
1999 Viva Percussion Records
1999 Best Instrumentals, Vol. 2 Sony
2000 Forever Gold [2 Disc] Boxsets
2000 Profile of Santana St. Clair
2000 Forever Gold Live St. Clair
2000 Tropical Spirits Cleopatra
2000 Persuasion [Hallmark] Hallmark
2000 High Profile Direct Source
2000 Dueling Rock Direct Source
2000 Mystical Spirits Parts 1 & 2 [live] Purple Pyramid
2000 Evil Ways [Legend] Legend
2000 Latin Tropical [Dressed to Kill] Metro
2000 Odyssey [live] Magnum
2000 Viva Santana! [Polygram International] Polygram
2000 The Best of Santana, Vol. 2 Columbia/Legac
2000 Nuclei Thunderbolt
2000 Classic Polydor
2001 As the Years Go By Legacy
2001 Great Red X
2001 Persuasion/Latin Tropical Thunderbolt
2001 Jam Hallmark
2001 The Legends Collection Dressed to
2001 Gold Collection Fine Tune
2001 Selection of Santana Proper
2001 Acapulco Sunrise/Odyssey Thunderbolt
2001 The Ultimate Collection [Live Bonus CD] SM Media
2001 Legends Collection, Vol. 1 Metrodome
2001 Legends Collection, Vol. 2 Legends
2001 Latin Spirit Prism Leisure
2002 Early Classics Town Sound
2002 Black Magic Woman Collectables
2002 San Mateo Sessions Cleopatra
2002 Classics
2002 Soul Sacrifice [Get Back] Get Back
2002 The Essential Santana Sony
2002 Best Instrumentals, Vol. 1 & 2 Sony
2002 Milagro/Sacred Fire Universal
2003 Very Best Of [Sony International] Sony
2003 Birth of Santana: The Complete Early Years Cleopatra
2003 Universal Masters Collection Universal
Doin' It Pair
15 Autenticos Exitos Sony
Santana Passion Columbia
Guitar Legend Onyx Classix