Monday, August 25, 2014

santana









Santana created a unique blend of Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban rhythms, and heavy psychedelic blues for this fiercely persuasive treat.  Bandleader Carlos Santana was born in Mexico and learned to play violin from his father at the age of five.  He switched to guitar at the age of eight and by fourteen was playing nights at a Tijuana strip club:   "I needed to do it to help him bring some financial help for my four sisters and two brothers and my mom; there was too many of us.  Of course, my older brother was helping, being a mechanic; anything we needed to do, sweeping or washing dishes. For me it just became natural, gravitating to music...I was trying to learn how to play like B.B. King and Otis Rush, and the more I started playing, I started playing like me.  So I said, 'Maybe you're not supposed to sound like them. Maybe I'm supposed to sound like me...I was born knowing that if you open the faucet, water's going to come out.  I just knew that the word 'impossible' was for some people, but not for me."

Santana emigrated to San Francisco and became involved in the local music scene.  He was given a slot at a matinee show at  Bill Graham's Fillmore West, which led to the promoter taking him under his wing.  The Santana Blues Band was formed with other local street musicians  David Brown, Marcus Malone, and Gregg Rolie.  As they built a following, the group secured a record deal with Columbia Records and started work on their debut.  During the sessions, they lost drummer Bob Livingston and percussionist Marcus Malone, replacing them with the more expansive powers of  Michael Shrieve, Michael Carabello, and José "Chepito" Areas.  'Santana' was recorded at Pacific Recording in San Mateo, California with Brent Dangerfield co-producing with the band that featured Carlos Santana on guitar and vocals;  Gregg Rolie on organ, piano, and vocals;  David Brown on bass;  Michael Shrieve on drums;  Michael Carabello on congas and percussion;  and José "Chepito" Areas on timbales, congas, percussion, and background vocals.  




Before the album was released, Graham secured the band a spot at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival.  The unknown band blew the audience away.  Rolie remembers:   "At the time, it was just another festival. We flew in and we played, then stayed and saw Sly Stone – who was awesome. But as we drove out, we started passing all of these people – 500,000 people. That’s when it dawned on me. If I had known what it was going to be, I might have been scared. At the time, we thought of it as just another gig. It turned out to be the mother of all of them...With Carlos, the best way to describe his playing is expressed by feelings. Carlos plays Carlos; he doesn’t play anybody else. He doesn’t go anywhere else." 

With the word of their performance at Woodstock, 'Santana' went to twenty-six in the UK, nineteen in Norway, fourteen in Australia, five in France and the Netherlands, and number four on the US album chart.  




http://www.santana.com/






'Evil Ways' became a top ten hit.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jO7j5KHWd4






'Santana' 
full album:



00:00 1 "Waiting" (Santana) -- 4:03
04:06 2 "Evil Ways" (Clarence "Sonny" Henry) -- 3:57
08:05 3 "Shades of Time" (G. Rolie / C. Santana) -- 3:14
11:20 4 "Savor" (Santana) -- 2:47
14:06 5 "Jingo" (Babatunde Olatunji) -- 4:21
18:27 6 "Persuasion" (Santana) -- 2:33
21:00 7 "Treat" (Santana) -- 4:43
25:44 8 "You Just Don't Care" (Santana) -- 4:34
30:20 9 "Soul Sacrifice" (C.Santana/G.Rolie/M.Malone/D.Brown) -- 6:38


bonus track
"Studio Jam" (C. Santana, G. Rolie, J. Areas, D. Brown, M. Carabello, M. Shrieve) – 7:09



Live at Woodstock



Santana - Soul Sacrifice (Live at Woodstock 1969) HD Remastered from Pedro Oliveira on Vimeo.



Setlist:
00:00 Waiting (audio)
04:49 Evil Ways (video)
08:44 You Just Don't Care (audio)
11:50 Savor (audio)
17:13 Jingo (audio)
22:35 Pesuasion (audio)
25:49 Soul Sacrifice (video)
32:03 Fried Neckbones And Some Home Fries (audio)


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