Welcome (Santana album)

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Welcome
Studio album by Santana
Released	November 9, 1973
Recorded	1973
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	48:32
Label	Columbia
Producer(s)	Carlos Santana, Mike Shrieve, Tom Coster, Bob Irwin
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone (not rated) link Robert Christgau (B+) link The Music Box link
Santana chronology
Love Devotion Surrender (1973)	Welcome (1973)	Lotus (1974)

Welcome is an album by Santana, released in 1973. It followed the jazz-fusion formula that the preceding Caravanserai had followed, with a different lineup this time. Gregg Rolie had left the band along with Neal Schon to form Journey, and they were replaced by Leon Thomas and John McLaughlin, who had collaborated with Carlos Santana on Love Devotion Surrender. Welcome also featured John Coltrane's widow, Alice, as a pianist on the album's opening track, "Going Home". Because this album was far more experimental than his first four albums, Welcome did not feature any hit singles.

In 2003, the album was re-released with a bonus track, "Mantra", which was part of a jam session between Tom Coster, Carlos Santana, and Mike Shrieve.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Going Home" (Coltrane) – 4:11
2. "Love, Devotion, and Surrender" (Kermode, Santana) – 3:38
3. "Samba de Sausalito" (Areas) – 3:11
4. "When I Look into Your Eyes" (Coster, Shrieve) – 5:52
5. "Yours Is the Light" (Kermode, Shrieve) – 5:47
6. "Mother Africa" (Coster, Mann, Santana) – 5:55
7. "Light of Life" (Coster, Kermode, Santana) – 3:52
8. "Flame Sky" (McLaughlin, Rauch, Santana) – 11:33
9. "Welcome" (Coltrane) – 6:35