The Essential Santana Explained

The Essential Santana
Type:greatest
Artist:Santana
Cover:The Essential Santana.jpg
Released:October 22, 2002
Recorded:May 12, 1969 – 1989
Producer:Various
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The Essential Santana is a compilation album by Santana, released on October 22, 2002. The collection is part of a series of Essential sets released by Columbia Records.

Uniquely among Santana compilations, "Soul Sacrifice" is included in the studio version from their first album, not the live performance from Woodstock.

The compilation contains no songs from the highly successful Supernatural album, despite it being released 3 years before this album. This is because Columbia and Santana's current label Arista Records were not under common ownership at the time. In 2013, Sony issued another "Essential Santana" 2-CD set which truncates the original's repertoire and does include music from the Arista era, as well as the live Woodstock version of "Soul Sacrifice".

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Jingo" (Babatunde Olatunji)  - 4:22
  2. "Evil Ways" (Clarence "Sonny" Henry)  - 3:56
  3. "Soul Sacrifice" (Carlos Santana, Gregg Rolie, David Brown, Marcus Malone)  - 6:36
  4. "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen" (Peter Green/Gábor Szabó)  - 5:19
  5. "Oye Como Va" (Tito Puente)  - 4:17
  6. "Samba Pa Ti" (Santana)  - 4:46
  7. "Everybody's Everything" (Brown, Tyrone Moss, Santana)  - 3:32
  8. "No One to Depend On" (Michael Carabello, Coke Escovedo, Rolie)  - 5:24
  9. "Toussaint l'Overture" (José Areas, Brown, Carabello, Rolie, Santana, Michael Shrieve)  - 5:56
  10. "Guajira" (Areas, Brown, Rico Reyes)  - 5:44
  11. "La Fuente del Ritmo" (Mingo Lewis)  - 4:33
  12. "In a Silent Way" (Joe Zawinul, Miles Davis)  - 7:58
    • Live at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, July 4, 1971
    • Previously featured on the compilation , 1972
  13. "Love, Devotion and Surrender" (Richard Kermode, Santana)  - 3:38
  14. "Mirage" (Leon Patillo)  - 4:43
  15. "Carnaval" (Tom Coster, Santana)  - 2:15
  16. "Let the Children Play" (Patillo, Santana)  - 3:28
  17. "Jugando" (Areas, Santana)  - 2:12

Disc two

  1. "She's Not There" (Rod Argent)  - 4:09
  2. "Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana)"  - (Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, Coster, David Rubinson)  - 8:00
  3. "Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)" (Coster, Santana)  - 5:05
    • from Amigos, 1976
  4. "Stormy" (Buddy Buie, James Cobb)  - 4:47
  5. "Well All Right" (Jerry Allison, Buddy Holly, Joe B. Mauldin, Norman Petty)  - 4:09
  6. "Open Invitation" (Dennis Lambert, David Margen, Brian Potter, Santana, Greg Walker)  - 4:45
  7. "Aqua Marine" (Alan Pasqua, Santana)  - 5:35
  8. "You Know That I Love You" (Alex Ligertwood, Pasqua, Santana, Chris Solberg)  - 3:57
  9. "All I Ever Wanted" (Ligertwood, Santana, Solberg)  - 3:35
  10. "Winning" (Russ Ballard)  - 3:29
  11. "Hold On" (Ian Thomas)  - 4:36
  12. "Nowhere to Run" (Ballard)  - 2:53
  13. "Say It Again" (Val Garay, Steve Goldstein, Anthony LaPeau)  - 3:28
  14. "Veracruz" (Jeffrey Cohen, Buddy Miles, Rolie, Santana, Chester D. Thompson)  - 3:46
  15. "Blues for Salvador" (Santana, Thompson)  - 5:57
  16. "The Healer" (John Lee Hooker, Roy Rogers, Santana, Thompson)  - 5:38

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