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August 12, 2009

Remembering Woodstock: Carlos Santana
October 16, 2008

Carlos' Cosmic Bummer

Santana prepares for a tour and struggles with the pain of his divorce
June 12, 2008

Secrets of the Guitar Heroes: Carlos Santana
June 12, 2008

Santana: The Essential Album-by-Album Guide

The highlights of Carlos Santana's varied career, from the early band recordings to his solo reinvention

Recordings and Reviews

Santana: The Woodstock Experience

If it had all been sun-shine and clockwork, with a tidy profit on the morning after, no one would have said another word. Instead, the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, held August 15th to 17th, 1969, near Bethel, New York — a refugee-camp experience officially declared a state disaster area on the...

2009 RS: 4of 5 Stars

All That I Am

2005

Shaman

2002

The Essential Santana

2002

Divine Light

2001

Supernatural

1999

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Biography

Through a long, erratic career laden with personnel changes, the group Santana has maintained popularity and critical respect with what was in the beginning an innovative fusion of rock, fiery Afro-Latin polyrhythms, and contrasting cool, low-key vocals. In time, group leader/guitarist Carlos Santana was drawn to jazz-rock fusion and worked outside the band with John McLaughlin, Stanley Clarke, an...

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