Santana (1969 album)

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Santana
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Studio album by Santana
Released August 1969
Recorded May 1969;
at Pacific Recording, in
San Mateo, California
Genre Latin rock, blues rock, chicano rock, jam rock, jazz-rock, psychedelic rock
Length 37:29
Label Columbia
Producer Santana, Brent Dangerfield
Santana chronology
Santana
(1969)		 Abraxas
(1970)Abraxas1970
Singles from Santana
  1. "Jingo"
    Released: October, 1969
  2. "Evil Ways"
    Released: December 30, 1969

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" failed to chart (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.

In 2003 the album was ranked number 149 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars[2]
Robert Christgau C−[3]
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars[4]

Allmusic awards the album 4 and a half stars, by stating "Carlos Santana was originally in his own wing of the Latin Rock hall of fame, neither playing Afro-Cuban with rock guitar, as did Malo, nor flavouring mainstream rock with percussion, as did Chicago."

Track listing

All songs written and composed by the members of Santana except where noted. 

Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Waiting"   4:03
2. "Evil Ways" (Clarence "Sonny" Henry) 3:54
3. "Shades of Time" (Carlos Santana, Gregg Rolie) 3:14
4. "Savor"   2:47
5. "Jingo" (Babatunde Olatunji) 4:21
Side two
No. Title Length
6. "Persuasion"   2:33
7. "Treat"   4:43
8. "You Just Don't Care"   4:34
9. "Soul Sacrifice" (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

Production

References

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