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Santana III (1971)

Where the lyrics of Santana III take you, and where it was really made.

This album is also called Santana III, and its cover is a reversed version of a painting that LIFE had featured in 1963.

Key places

Recorded at Columbia Studios (1971)

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Album story

Overview

• Santana: third studio album by the American rock band Santana
• Released September 24, 1971 by Columbia Records
• Second self-titled album of the band, so it is called Santana III to tell it apart from the 1969 debut
• Also known as Man with an Outstretched Hand after its cover image
• Last album by the Woodstock-era lineup until the 2016 reunion on Santana IV
• Neal Schon joined the group as a 16-year-old guitarist with this album

Background

• Considered by many to be the band's peak, both commercially and musically
• Later releases moved toward more experimental jazz fusion and Latin music
• Lineup credits include Gregg Rolie (lead vocals, keyboards, piano), Carlos Santana (guitar), Neal Schon (guitar), David Brown (bass), and Michael Shrieve (drums)

Recording

• The original album was recorded at Columbia Studios in San Francisco
• Released in both stereo and quadraphonic versions

Cover

• Cover is a reverse variation of an Arthur Lidov painting
• The painting was featured in the 28 June 1963 issue of LIFE

Sources: en.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

• "Everybody's Everything" peaked at No. 12 in the United States in October 1971
• "No One to Depend On", an uncredited adaptation of Willie Bobo's boogaloo standard "Spanish Grease", received significant airplay on FM radio and peaked at No. 36 in March 1972

Reappraisal

• Many considered this album the band's commercial and musical peak
• Subsequent releases aimed toward more experimental jazz fusion and Latin music

Records

• Last Santana album to reach number one on the charts until Supernatural in 1999
• "Everybody's Everything" reached No. 3 in Canada (1971)
• "No One to Depend On" reached No. 17 in Canada (1972)

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Released in Argentina under the title "Taboo", the same as one of the album's tracks
• "No One to Depend On" was an uncredited adaptation of a Willie Bobo standard
• The album came in a gatefold sleeve
• Neal Schon was 16 when he joined the group with this album

Sources: es.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

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