Santana (1969 album)

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ReleasedAugust 22, 1969 [1]
RecordedMay 1969
Studio Pacific, San Mateo
Genre
Length37:15
Label Columbia
Producer
Santana chronology
Santana
(1969)
Abraxas
(1970)
Singles from Santana
  1. "Jingo"
    Released: October 1969
  2. "Evil Ways"
    Released: January 1970

Santana is the debut studio album by American Latin rock band Santana. It was released on August 22, 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.

Contents

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 only a modest performer, spending eight weeks on the chart and reaching #56; [2] however, "Evil Ways", the second single taken from the album, was a U.S. Top 10 hit, reaching #9 and spending thirteen weeks on the chart. [2] The album spent more than two years (108 weeks) on the Billboard 200 pop album chart and peaked at #4 in November 1969. [3] It also reached #26 on the UK Albums Chart. It has been mixed and released in both stereo and quadraphonic. The album cover features artwork by Lee Conklin.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [4]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
The Village Voice C− [9]

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. [10] Village Voice critic Robert Christgau shared Winner's sentiment in his "unreconstructed opposition to the methedrine school of American music. A lot of noise". [9]

A retrospective Rolling Stone review was more enthusiastic, finding Santana "thrilling ... with ambition, soul and absolute conviction - every moment played straight from the heart". [7] In 2003, the magazine ranked Santana number 150 on their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, [11] moving up to 149 in a 2012 revised list. [12] Colin Larkin deemed it an excellent example of Latin rock in his Encyclopedia of Popular Music (2011). [5]

Track listing

All tracks are written by the members of Santana except where noted

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Waiting" (instrumental) 4:03
2."Evil Ways"Clarence "Sonny" Henry3:54
3."Shades of Time" Carlos Santana, Gregg Rolie 3:14
4."Savor" (instrumental) 2:47
5."Jingo" Babatunde Olatunji 4:21
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Persuasion" 2:33
7."Treat" (instrumental) 4:43
8."You Just Don't Care" 4:34
9."Soul Sacrifice" (instrumental)Santana, Rolie, David Brown, Marcus Malone 6:37

1998 reissue

Writing credits and songs' lengths are in accord with album's inner notes.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Waiting"Santana, Rolie, José Areas, Brown, Michael Carabello, Michael Shrieve 4:03
2."Evil Ways"Henry3:57
3."Shades of Time"Rolie, Santana3:14
4."Savor"Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve2:47
5."Jingo"Olatunji4:21
6."Persuasion"Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve2:33
7."Treat"Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve4:43
8."You Just Don't Care"Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve4:34
9."Soul Sacrifice"Santana, Rolie, Malone, Brown6:38
10."Savor" (Live at the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, Saturday, August 16, 1969; previously unissued)Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve5:27
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, Brown11:39
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.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Waiting"Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve4:07
2."Evil Ways"Henry4:00
3."Shades of Time"Rolie, Santana3:13
4."Savor"Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve2:46
5."Jingo"Olatunji4:23
6."Persuasion"Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve2:36
7."Treat"Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve4:46
8."You Just Don't Care"Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve4:37
9."Soul Sacrifice"Santana, Rolie, Malone, Brown6:38
10."Savor" (Alternate take #2)Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve2:57
11."Soul Sacrifice" (Alternate take #4)Santana, Rolie, Malone, Brown8:50
12."Studio Jam"Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve7:09

Note: Tracks 10–12 are from the studio sessions for the album recorded in May 1969.

Disc 2
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Fried Neckbones"Bobo, Lastie7:41
2."Soul Sacrifice"Santana, Rolie, Malone, Brown9:06
3."Persuasion"Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve3:52
4."Treat"Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve6:49
5."Shades of Time"Santana, Rolie2:29
6."Jingo"Olatunji5:20
7."Waiting" (Live at the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, Saturday, August 16, 1969)Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve4:44
8."You Just Don't Care" (Live at the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, Saturday, August 16, 1969)Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve4:55
9."Savor" (Live at the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, Saturday, August 16, 1969)Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve5:25
10."Jingo" (Live at the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, Saturday, August 16, 1969)Olatunji5:14
11."Persuasion" (Live at the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, Saturday, August 16, 1969)Santana, Rolie, Areas, Brown, Carabello, Shrieve3:05
12."Soul Sacrifice" (Live at the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, Saturday, August 16, 1969)Santana, Rolie, Malone, Brown11:49
13."Fried Neckbones" (Live at the Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York, Saturday, August 16, 1969)Bobo, Lastie7:13

Note: Tracks 1–6 are from the original studio sessions for the album recorded January 27–29, 1969.

Personnel

Production

Charts

Chart (1969–1970)Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) [14] 14
Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [15] 6
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [16] 5
French Albums (SNEP) [17] 5
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [18] 12
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [19] 98
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [20] 19
UK Albums (OCC) [21] 34
US Billboard 200 [22] 4

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [23] 2× Platinum2,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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