The album opens with still another blues song with the oft-recorded topic of selling one's soul to the devil, the aptly named "Deal With The Devil." I really liked Harmon's guitar work on the intro, reminiscent to Carlos Santana's playing on "Black Magic Woman." It fits here. That ...
'Abraxas' Santana (1970): Carlos Santana's shamanistic guitar served as the lodestar as his band brilliantly stirred in elements of rock, salsa, jazz and blues -- completely transforming Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va" and Fleetwood Mac's "Black Magic Woman" along the way. Led Zeppelin III ...
'Abraxas' Santana (1970): Carlos Santana's shamanistic guitar served as the lodestar as his band brilliantly stirred in elements of rock, salsa, jazz and blues -- completely transforming Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va" and Fleetwood Mac's "Black Magic Woman" along the way. 'Led Zeppelin III...
'Abraxas' Santana (1970): Carlos Santana's shamanistic guitar served as the lodestar as his band brilliantly stirred in elements of rock, salsa, jazz and blues -- completely transforming Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va" and Fleetwood Mac's "Black Magic Woman" along the way. 'Led Zeppelin III...
(M.C. Records), his album with piano player Pete Sears, is Gravenites' first recording in eight years, with these sessions taking place just a few years ago. He's no longer able to play the guitar due to arthritis in his hands, but Jimmy Vivino helps out on the session, as does ...
57: Santana Santana's Woodstock-era emergence was keyed by a collaborative mixture of Latin-tinged rock styles. Later, Santana's core members scattered as the band's namesake guitarist took things in a jazzier direction. Carlos Santana then made a huge, guest-packed comeback in the late '90s...