Santana (1969 album)

Santana is the debut studio album by Latin rock band Santana released in 1969. Over half of the album's length is composed of instrumental music, recorded by what was originally a purely free-form jam band. At the suggestion of manager Bill Graham, the band took to writing more conventional songs for more impact, but managed to retain the essence of improvisation in the music.

The album was destined to be a major release, given a headstart by the band's seminal performance at the Woodstock Festival earlier that August. Although "Jingo" was not very successful (only reaching #56), "Evil Ways", the second single taken from the album, was a U.S. Top 10 hit. The album peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200 pop album chart and #26 on the UK Albums Chart. It has been mixed and released in both stereo and quadraphonic.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[2]
Q	^[3]
Rolling Stone	^[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[5]
The Village Voice	C−^[6]

In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, Langdon Winner panned Santana as "a masterpiece of hollow techniques" and "a speed freak's delight - fast, pounding, frantic music with no real content". He compared the music's effect to methedrine, which "gives a high with no meaning", finding Rollie and Santana's playing repetitively unimaginative amidst a monotony of incompetent rhythms and inconsequential lyrics.^[7] Village Voice critic Robert Christgau shared Winner's sentiment in his "unreconstructed opposition to the methedrine school of American music. A lot of noise".^[6]

A retrospective Rolling Stone review was more enthusiastic, finding Santana "thrilling ... with ambition, soul and absolute conviction - every moment played straight from the heart".^[4] In 2003, the magazine ranked Santana number 150 on their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.^[8] Colin Larkin deemed it an excellent example of Latin rock in his Encyclopedia of Popular Music (2011).^[2]

Track listing

All tracks written by the members of Santana except where noted.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Waiting (instrumental)"	4:03
2.	"Evil Ways" (Clarence "Sonny" Henry)	3:54
3.	"Shades of Time" (Carlos Santana, Gregg Rolie)	3:14
4.	"Savor (instrumental)"	2:47
5.	"Jingo" (Babatunde Olatunji)	4:21

Side two
No.	Title	Length
6.	"Persuasion"	2:33
7.	"Treat (instrumental)"	4:43
8.	"You Just Don't Care"	4:34
9.	"Soul Sacrifice (instrumental)" (Carlos Santana, Gregg Rolie, David Brown, Marcus Malone)	6:37

1998 reissue

Writing credits and songs' lengths are in accord with album's inner notes.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Waiting"	Santana, Rolie, José Areas, Brown, Michael Carabello, Michael Shrieve	4:03
2.	"Evil Ways"	Henry	3:57
3.	"Shades of Time"	Rolie, Santana	3:14
4.	"Savor"	Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve	2:47
5.	"Jingo"	Olatunji	4:21
6.	"Persuasion"	Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve	2:33
7.	"Treat"	Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve	4:43
8.	"You Just Don't Care"	Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve	4:34
9.	"Soul Sacrifice"	Santana, Rolie, Malone, Brown	6:38
10.	"Savor" (Live at the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, Saturday, August 16, 1969; previously unissued)	Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve	5:27
11.	"Soul Sacrifice" (Live at the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, Saturday, August 16, 1969; released on Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More, 1970)	Santana, Rolie, Malone, Brown	11:39
12.	"Fried Neckbones" (Live at the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, Saturday, August 16, 1969; previously unissued)	Willie Bobo, Melvin Lastie	7:13

2004 Legacy Edition

Disc 1
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Waiting"	Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve	4:07
2.	"Evil Ways"	Henry	4:00
3.	"Shades of Time"	Rolie, Santana	3:13
4.	"Savor"	Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve	2:46
5.	"Jingo"	Olatunji	4:23
6.	"Persuasion"	Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve	2:36
7.	"Treat"	Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve	4:46
8.	"You Just Don't Care"	Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve	4:37
9.	"Soul Sacrifice"	Santana, Rolie, Malone, Brown	6:38
10.	"Savor" (Alternate take #2)	Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve	2:57
11.	"Soul Sacrifice" (Alternate take #4)	Santana, Rolie, Malone, Brown	8:50
12.	"Studio Jam"	Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve	7:09

Note: Tracks 10–12 are from the studio sessions for the album recorded in May 1969.

Disc 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Fried Neckbones"	Bobo, Lastie	7:41
2.	"Soul Sacrifice"	Santana, Rolie, Malone, Brown	9:06
3.	"Persuasion"	Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve	3:52
4.	"Treat"	Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve	6:49
5.	"Shades of Time"	Santana, Rolie	2:29
6.	"Jingo"	Olatunji	5:20
7.	"Waiting" (Live at the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, Saturday, August 16, 1969)	Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve	4:44
8.	"You Just Don't Care" (Live at the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, Saturday, August 16, 1969)	Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve	4:55
9.	"Savor" (Live at the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, Saturday, August 16, 1969)	Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve	5:25
10.	"Jingo" (Live at the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, Saturday, August 16, 1969)	Olatunji	5:14
11.	"Persuasion" (Live at the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, Saturday, August 16, 1969)	Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve	3:05
12.	"Soul Sacrifice" (Live at the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, Saturday, August 16, 1969)	Santana, Rolie, Malone, Brown	11:49
13.	"Fried Neckbones" (Live at the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, Saturday, August 16, 1969)	Bobo, Lastie	7:13

Note: Tracks 1–6 are from the original studio sessions for the album recorded January 27–29, 1969.

Personnel

Gregg Rolie – lead vocals, Hammond organ, piano
Carlos Santana – guitar, backing vocals
David Brown – bass
Michael Shrieve – drums
Michael Carabello – congas, percussion
José "Chepito" Areas – timbales, congas, percussion

Production

Brent Dangerfield and Santana band – producers
David Brown – engineer
Lee Conklin – album cover art^[9]
David Rubinson – producer (original first session January 27–29, 1969)

References

↑ Santana at AllMusic
1 2 Larkin, Colin (2011). "Santana". Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0857125958.
↑ Q: 131. May 2000. CS1 maint: Untitled periodical (link)
1 2 Rolling Stone: 100. March 2, 2000. CS1 maint: Untitled periodical (link)
↑ "Santana: Album Guide". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
1 2 Christgau, Robert (1969). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
↑ Winner, Langdon (18 October 1969). "Records". Rolling Stone. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. (44): 38. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
↑ "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone: 131. December 11, 2003.
↑ "Cover Story – Santana’s Santana, with illustration by Lee Conklin | The Rock and Roll Report". Retrieved 2012-10-09.

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Santana

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solo albums

Studio	Love Devotion Surrender Illuminations Oneness: Silver Dreams Golden Realities The Swing of Delight Havana Moon Blues for Salvador Santana Brothers
Live	Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live! Carlos Santana Live Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1988

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