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All That I Am (2005)

Where the lyrics of All That I Am take you, and where it was really made.

Sony recalled the affected CDs and re-released the album without its DRM copy protection.

Key places

Recorded at Fantasy Studios (2005)

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Recorded at Henson Recording Studios (2005)

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Recorded at Doppler Studios (2005)

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Recorded at Level Heads Studio (2005)

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Recorded at Stankonia Recording (2005)

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Recorded at O’Henry Sound Studios (2005)

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Recorded at Chung King Studios (2005)

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Recorded at The Record Plant (2005)

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Recorded at Conway Recording Studios (2005)

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Recorded at Sony Music Studios (2005)

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Recorded at Sound on Sound Recording Studios (2005)

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Album story

Overview

• All That I Am is the 20th studio album by Santana and a follow-up to the 2002 album Shaman
• Released 31 October 2005 in most of the world, and 1 November 2005 in the United States
• 13 tracks, mostly collaborations with other artists
• Follows the format of the band's two previous studio releases
• Co-produced by Carlos Santana and Clive Davis, who also produced the two previous albums

Background

• Santana's previous studio album Shaman came out in 2002
• Guest vocalists include Michelle Branch with The Wreckers, Steven Tyler, Mary J. Blige and Big Boi, will.i.am, Sean Paul and Joss Stone, Anthony Hamilton, Bo Bice, and Los Lonely Boys
• Kirk Hammett and Robert Randolph appear on Trinity
• Trinity is a tribute to the Pakistani musician Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and a cover of his song Tere Bina
• I Am Somebody is considered by most as a tribute to I Am - Somebody, a poem by Reverend Jesse Jackson
• Producers credited include Carlos Santana, John Shanks, Kara DioGuardi, will.i.am, Dante Ross, Lester Mendez, and Jamie Houston

Recording

• The album's credits list studios in New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Berkeley, Burbank, and Virginia Beach
• Recording was done at studios including Fantasy Studios, Henson Recording Studios, Sony Music Studios, and Sound on Sound Recording Studios
• Mixing was done at Fantasy Studios, Henson Recording Studios, MixStar Studios, and Larrabee Sound North
• Mastering was done at Sterling Sound in New York City
• Core band members include Carlos Santana, Benny Rietveld, Chester Thompson, Dennis Chambers, Karl Perazzo, Raul Rekow, Jeff Cressman, and Bill Ortiz

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Formed in San Francisco, California, in 1966 by Mexican-American guitarist Carlos Santana.
• Named the Santana Blues Band at a January 1967 Fillmore audition; shortened to Santana by the end of 1967.
• Signed with Columbia Records in late 1968.
• The "classic" line-up stabilised in May 1969: Carlos Santana, Gregg Rolie, Michael Carabello, David Brown, Michael Shrieve and Jose "Chepito" Areas.

Members

• Carlos Santana is the only consistent member across the band's history.
• Classic line-up: Santana, Gregg Rolie (organ, lead vocals), Michael Carabello and Jose "Chepito" Areas (percussion), Michael Shrieve (drums), David Brown (bass).
• Brown died in 2000; Areas was not invited to the 2014 reunion.
• Classic line-up members were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

Career

• Breakthrough at the 1969 Woodstock Festival; the debut album Santana peaked at No. 4 on the US Billboard 200.
• Abraxas (1970) and Santana III (1971) both reached No. 1 on the US Billboard 200.
• Early 1970s experiments with jazz fusion on Caravanserai (1972), Welcome (1973) and Borboletta (1974).
• Amigos (1976) returned the band to commercial success; Moonflower (1977) was its most successful album since Santana III.
• Commercial decline in the 1980s, followed by a seven-year recording hiatus.
• Supernatural (1999) won eight Grammy Awards and sold an estimated 30 million copies worldwide.
• Santana IV (2016) reunited the classic line-up, the first recording together in 45 years.
• Estimated 100 million records sold worldwide.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• The album debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200
• The first single, I'm Feeling You with Michelle Branch and The Wreckers, was released in October 2005 after receiving radio airplay the previous month
• The second single, Just Feel Better with Steven Tyler, was released in November 2005
• The final single, Cry Baby Cry with Sean Paul and Joss Stone, followed

Records

• Billboard 200 debut: number 2
• I'm Feeling You peaked at number 55 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100
• Just Feel Better peaked at number 7 in Australia and number 77 in the UK
• Cry Baby Cry peaked at number 71 in the UK

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The CD was thought to contain MediaMax CD-3 DRM by SunnComm
• Some anti-virus and anti-adware programs tried to remove the DRM clones, and Sony recalled all affected CDs
• Sony re-released the album without the DRM
• Trinity is a tribute to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and a cover of his song Tere Bina
• I Am Somebody is considered by most as a tribute to a poem by Reverend Jesse Jackson

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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