Santana (1969 album)
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| Released | August 30, 1969 | |||
| Recorded | May 1969 | |||
| Studio | Pacific Recording, San Mateo | |||
| Genre | Latin rock, jazz fusion, psychedelic rock | |||
| Length | 37:29 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Santana, Brent Dangerfield | |||
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Santana is the debut studio album by American Latin rock band Santana. It was released on August 30, 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 boost by the band's performance at the Woodstock Festival earlier that August. The album's first single, "Jingo", was not very successful (only reaching #56); however, "Evil Ways", the second single taken from the album, was a U.S. Top 10 hit (reaching #9). 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. The album cover was made by Lee Conklin.
Critical reception
| 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 Rolie 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] moving up to 149 in a 2012 revised list.[9] Colin Larkin deemed it an excellent example of Latin rock in his Encyclopedia of Popular Music (2011).[2]
Track listing
All tracks are written by the members of Santana except where noted
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | 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 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | 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
| 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.
| 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 guitar
- Michael Shrieve – drums
- Michael Carabello – congas, percussion
- José "Chepito" Areas – timbales, congas, percussion
- Marcus Malone – congas (uncredited)
Production
- Brent Dangerfield and Santana band – producers
- David Brown – engineer
- Lee Conklin – album cover art[10]
- David Rubinson – producer (original first session January 27–29, 1969)
References
- ^ Santana at AllMusic
- ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2011). "Santana". Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0857125958.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - ^ Q: 131. May 2000.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - ^ a b Rolling Stone: 100. March 2, 2000.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - ^ "Santana: Album Guide". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2012-01-28. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
- ^ a b Christgau, Robert (1969). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
- ^ Winner, Langdon (18 October 1969). "Records". Rolling Stone (44). San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc.: 38. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ^ "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone: 131. December 11, 2003.
- ^ "500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time". Rolling Stone. 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
- ^ "Cover Story – Santana's Santana, with illustration by Lee Conklin | The Rock and Roll Report". Retrieved 2012-10-09.
External links
- Santana - Santana (1969) album releases & credits at Discogs.com
- Santana - Santana (1969) album user reviews & credits at ProgArchives.com
- Santana - Santana (1969) album review by Rovi Staff, credits, releases and Billboard charts at AllMusic.com
