Havana Moon

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Havana Moon
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Studio album by
Carlos Santana
ReleasedApril 1, 1983 (1983-04-01)
Recorded The Automatt, San Francisco, CA
Length46:08
Label CBS
Producer Jerry Wexler, Barry Beckett
Carlos Santana chronology
Shangó
(1982)		Havana Moon
(1983)		 Beyond Appearances
(1985)

Havana Moon is a solo album by Carlos Santana, released in 1983.

Contents

It features covers of Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry songs and performances by Booker T Jones, Willie Nelson and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, and also Carlos' father José singing "Vereda Tropical", a song Carlos had first heard when his father was serenading his mother following an argument. [1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Robert Christgau B+ [3]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

J. D. Considine of Rolling Stone deemed Carlos Santana recording Tex-Mex music to be a natural fit, and felt that the Fabulous Thunderbirds were ideal collaborators for such a project. He particularly praised the renditions of "Who Do you Love" and "Havana Moon" for throwing in inspired Tex-Mex elements while staying true to the appeal of the original recordings. However, he found the album's roaming to other styles on the six cuts recorded without the Fabulous Thunderbirds to be dissatisfying, remarking, "It's not so much that Havana Moon is inconsistent — although it's that, too — as it is confusing, jumping from style to style as if Carlos Santana weren't sure what he wanted to do. It's nice to see that he's eager to expand his horizons, but it's disappointing that he undercuts his efforts by attempting to cover all the bases." [4]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Watch Your Step" (Phil Belmonte, Bobby Parker) – 4:01
  2. "Lightnin'" (Booker T. Jones, Carlos Santana) – 3:51
  3. "Who Do You Love?" (Ellas McDaniel) – 2:55
  4. "Mudbone" (Santana) – 5:51
  5. "One with You" (Jones) – 5:14

Side two

  1. "Ecuador" (Santana) – 1:10
  2. "Tales of Kilimanjaro" (Alan Pasqua, Armando Peraza, Raul Rekow, Santana) – 4:50
  3. "Havana Moon" (Chuck Berry) – 4:09
  4. "Daughter of the Night" (Hasse Huss, Mikael Rickfors) – 4:18
  5. "They All Went to Mexico" (Greg Brown) – 4:47
  6. "Vereda Tropical" (Gonzalo Curiel) – 4:57

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1983)Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) [5] 32
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [6] 18
Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [7] 54
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [8] 16
Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts) [9] 7
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [10] 21
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [11] 33
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [12] 6
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [13] 6
UK Albums (OCC) [14] 84
US Billboard 200 [15] 31

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References

  1. ↑ "Vereda Tropical by Santana - Songfacts".
  2. ↑ Ruhlmann, William. Havana Moon at AllMusic
  3. ↑ "Robert Christgau: Album: Carlos Santana: Havana Moon". robertchristgau.com. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
  4. 1 2 Considine, J. D. (June 9, 1983). "Havana Moon". Rolling Stone . No. 397. pp. 57–58. Archived from the original on December 28, 2007.
  5. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
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  15. ↑ "Santana Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved June 15, 2024.
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