Spirits Dancing in the Flesh

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Spirits Dancing in the Flesh
Santana Spirits Dancing in the Flesh.jpg
Studio album by
Santana
ReleasedJune 1990
StudioThe Plant Studios, Sausalito, California
Genre Hard rock
Length48:22
Label Columbia
Producer Carlos Santana, Vernon Reid, Chester Thompson, Jim Gaines
Santana chronology
Viva Santana!
(1988)		Spirits Dancing in the Flesh
(1990)		 Milagro
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Entertainment Weekly B [2]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Select 3/5 [4]

Spirits Dancing in the Flesh is the sixteenth studio album by Santana. It reached eighty-five in the Billboard 200. [5]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Let There Be Light/Spirits Dancing in the Flesh" (Carlos Santana, Chester D. Thompson) – 7:20
  2. "Gypsy Woman" (Curtis Mayfield) – 4:29
  3. "It's a Jungle Out There" (Santana) – 4:32
  4. "Soweto (Africa Libre)" (Santana, Thompson, Alphonso Johnson) – 5:06
  5. "Choose" (Santana, Thompson, Alex Ligertwood) – 4:14
  6. "Peace on Earth...Mother Earth...Third Stone from the Sun" (John Coltrane, Santana, Jimi Hendrix) – 4:26
  7. "Full Moon" (Paolo Rustichelli) – 4:31
  8. "Who's That Lady" (Rudolph Isley, Ronald Isley, O'Kelly Isley, Jr., Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley, Chris Jasper) – 4:15
  9. "Jin-go-lo-ba" (Babatunde Olatunji) – 4:46
  10. "Goodness and Mercy" (Santana, Thompson) – 4:30

Personnel

Band

Guest musicians

Additional musicians

Production

Charts

Chart (1990)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [6] 28
Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [7] 99
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [8] 66
Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts) [9] 38
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [10] 34
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [11] 19
UK Albums (OCC) [12] 68
US Billboard 200 [13] 85

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References

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  2. ↑ Sandow, Greg (July 6, 1990). "Spirits Dancing in the Flesh". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved February 6, 2023.
  3. ↑ Goodman, Fred (September 20, 1990). "Santana: Spirits Dancing In The Flesh : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on November 12, 2007. Retrieved April 14, 2012.
  4. ↑ Rice, Glenn (August 1990). "Santana: Spirits Dancing in the Flesh". Select . p. 104.
  5. ↑ "Spirits Dancing in the Flesh - Santana | Awards | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – Santana – Spirits Dancing in the Flesh" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
  7. ↑ "Top RPM Albums: Issue 1353". RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
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  9. ↑ Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. ISBN   978-951-1-21053-5.
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  11. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Santana – Spirits Dancing in the Flesh". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
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  13. ↑ "Santana Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
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