Santana - Santana (LP 1969 - first album)

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Santana - Santana (LP Columbia CS 9781 - 1969 - first album).

"Santana" é o álbum de estreia da banda americana Santana, lançado em Agosto de 1969. É o primeiro de dois álbuns homónimos da banda, sendo o segundo lançado em 1971 e convencionalmente denominado Santana III. 

A maior parte do álbum é instrumental, pois o grupo era uma banda de Jam. Por sugestão do empresário Bill Graham, a banda escreveu músicas convencionais, mas sem perder o toque do improviso. O álbum veio logo depois do grupo fazer sucesso no Festival de Woodstock, e figurou na lista dos 500 melhores álbuns de todos os tempos da Revista Rolling Stone, aparecendo em 150º lugar. O single "Evil Ways" figurou na parada das "top 10".

Santana's first album cover was the inspiration for this piece. Beautiful images that combine to form the lion's face. Santana is the debut studio album by the San Francisco rock group Santana released in 1969. It is a release of largely 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 create much interest when released as a single, "Evil Ways", the second single taken from the album, was a U. S. Top 10 hit. The album was the first of Santana's two self-titled albums, the other being their third album in 1971. The album peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200 pop album chart. In 2003, the album was ranked number 150 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Fonte: Wikipedia.

Faixas/Track List:

1. "Waiting" (Santana) 

2. "Evil Ways" (J. Zack) 

3. "Shades of Time" (Santana) 

4. "Savor" (Santana)

5. "Jingo" (Babatunde Olatunji) 

6. "Persuasion" (Santana Band) 

7. "Treat" (Santana Band) 

8. "You Just Don't Care" (Santana Band) 

9. "Soul Sacrifice" (Santana Band) 

Bonus Tracks:

(all recorded live at the Woodstock Festival - August 16,1969)

10. Savor

11. Soul Sacrifice

12. Fried Neckbones 

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