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THE BEST OF SANTANA

You've listened to Santana over the years on the radio. Now for the first time, the best of Santana's entire Columbia career is available on one collection.

77 Minutes of Music!

With reissue expert Bob Irwin tracking down the original master tapes and serving as the compilation producer, and with Sterling Sound's legendary George Marino at the helm as mastering engineer, this remarkable and cohesive sounding collection of hit recordings will surely win points for sonic quality and pure entertainment value. The album is beautifully packaged with a stunningly vivid cover. In addition, Pete Frame has allowed us to publish, for the very first time, his Santana Family Tree---this incredibly detailed work of art folds out into a mini-poster and documents every change in the Santana band's line-up from 1966 through 1984! As if that weren't enough----there are unpublished photos and liner notes written by Rolling Stone's David Fricke!

THE BEST OF SANTANA

(CK/CT 65561)
1) Jingo
2) Evil Ways
3) Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen
4) Oye como va
5) Samba Pa Ti
6) She's not There
7) No One to depend on
8) Open Invitation
9) Hold On
10) Bella
11) Winning
12) All I ever wanted
13) Dance Sister Dance
14) Europa
15) Everybody's Everything
16) Soul Sacrifice

The First Three Albums--Expanded and Enhanced In the tradition of Legacy's critically acclaimed Expanded Edition series (The Byrds, Spirit), these reissued masterpieces include all of the original music and album artwork and feature new liner notes written by Ben Fong-Torres (including new interviews with Carlos Santana and Gregg Rolie), unpublished photos, memorabilia, and, of course, unreleased bonus tracks!

Bonus Material--In addition to the complete original album, each expanded and enhanced Santana reissue contains three live bonus tracks. "Santana", the first album, reveals a taste of what brought them to the world's attention with three tracks from their legendary performance at Woodstock in August, 1969. Two of these recordings-- "Savor" and "Fried Neckbones"--have never been released, while a third, the now famous version of "Soul Sacrifice", was featured in the Woodstock movie and album.

"Abraxas" includes three stunning tracks from a concert at The Royal Albert Hall in April of 1970. None of these three performances---"Se A Cabo", "Toussaint L'Overture" & "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen"---have ever been released before!

"Santana", the third album (better known as Santana III), features three performances from The Fillmore West in 1971. These never released recordings, "Batuka", "Jungle Strut" & "Gumbo", are absolutely blistering, and feature a guitar duel between Carlos Santana and new band member Neal Schon!

Each album has been 24-bit digitally mastered from the original source tapes for stunning sound quality. Overseen by reissue maven Bob Irwin, the mastering job was done by Vic Anesini at Sony Music Studios in New York City.


SANTANA (Expanded Edition)

(CK/CT 65489)

1)Waiting
2)Evil Ways
3)Shades Of Time
4)Savor
5)Jingo
6)Persuasion
7)Treat
8)You Just Don't Care
9)Soul Sacrifice
Bonus Tracks (on CD only)
All recorded live at the Woodstock Festival
August 16, 1969
11)Savor*
12)Soul Sacrifice
13)Fried Neckbones*
*previously unissued

ABRAXAS (Expanded Edition)

(CK/CT 65490)

1) Singing Winds, Crying Beasts
2)Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen
3)Oye Como Va
4)Incident At Neshabur
5)Se A Cabo
6)Mother's Daughter
7)Samba Pa Ti
8)Hope You're Feeling Better
9)El Nicoya
Bonus Tracks (on CD only)
All recorded live at The Royal Albert Hall
April 18th, 1970
10)Se A Cabo*
11)Toussaint L'Overture*
12)Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen*
*previously unissued

SANTANA III (Expanded Edition)

(CK/CT 65491)

1)Batuka
2)No One To Depend On
3)Taboo
4)Toussaint L'Overture
5)Everybody's Everything
6)Guajira
7)Jungle Strut
8)Everything's Coming Our Way
9)Para Los Rumberos
Bonus Tracks (on CD only)
All recorded live at The Fillmore
July 4th, 1971
10)Batuka*
11)Jungle Strut*
12)Gumbo*
*previously unissued