Santana - Abraxas
#205 on Rolling Stone's Top 500 Albums Of All Time List
Lineup:
Carlos Santana - Guitar, Vocals
Neal Schon - Guitar
Gregg Rolie - Keyboards
Michael Shrieve - Drums
After the success of Santana's debut album
Santana released Nov 1969, one year later
Abraxas was released. In December 1970, the album hit # 7 on the UK charts.
Facts - Carlos Santana was born in July 20, 1947 in Autlan de Navarro, Mexico. His parents were Jose Santana and Josefina Santana.
1.
Singing Wing, Crying Beasts
This song is just instrumental, thee is lots of keyboard and even some wind chimes in the background, nice guitar work here, it's a pretty good intro.
3.5/5
2.
Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen
This song is originally done by Fleetwood Mac, they did a pretty great job covering it, cool bass line, awesome guitar solo.
5/5
3.
Oye Coma Va
Starts out with some keyboard then the drums kick in with the bass which fits in well. About halfway into the song there is an excellent keyboard solo done by Gregg. There are some lyrics but it's Spanish.
4/5
4.
Incident At Neshabur
This is another instrumental song on the album. The song starts out fast with fast drums and keyboard. Most of the song is fast paced except for a few mellow parts. This is one of my favorite songs one the album.
5/5
5.
Se A Cabo
This is another one of my favorite songs on the album, it's another fast paced song that is pretty short but sweet, has cool drums and keyboard.
5/5
6.
Mother's Daughter
This song has the best guitar work on the whole album. The drums, keyboard, bass, and guitar fit well with the vocals. There are lyrics in the song that English. There is also a fast guitar solo at the end.
5/5
7.
Samba Pa Ti
This is the slowest song on the album, there is no keyboard at the begining just drums, bass, and a smooth guitar line throughout the whole song. The keyboard kicks in fast paced in the middle of the song. There are no lyrics, it's just instrumental but it's still great.
4/5
8.
Hope You're Feeling Better
Starts out with a cool keyboard intro which later kicks in with the guitar and bass, There are some lyrics which fit well with everything. Amazing guitar solo, good stuff, my all time favorite song on the album.
6/5
9.
El Nicoya
Starts out with real fast bongos, no guitar, bass or keyboard, there are some lyrics but there Spanish, not much to say about this song.
3/5
Final Rating - 5/5
This Message Edited On 04.11.06
