Essential Santana

Best Instrumentals (Sony) Mid-priced compilation featuring 15 of the guitar legend's absolute finest instrumental works, including 'Samba Pa Ti','Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)', 'I Love You Much Too Much', 'Life Is A Lady/ Holiday', 'Blues For Salvador' & 'Soul Sacrifice'. 1997 Sony release.	Ultimate Santana Tracklisting subject to change	The Best of Santana There are a couple of Santana best-of compilations out there, and even a few mastersound gold-plated CDs, but this collection is as good a place as any for a newcomer to explore. It contains the band's three essential charters--"Black Magic Woman," "Evil Ways," and "Oye Como Va"-...	Supernatural The Arista debut of Carlos Santana and band gives fans of the soulful guitar vet two albums in one, but it's a decidedly good-news, bad-news proposition. First, there's a fine collection of late-'90s-model Santana--tastefully tooled songs driven by Latin jazz and Afro-Cuban rhyth...	Shaman How could Carlos Santana hope to follow the massive comeback album Supernatural? The solution he settled upon was to once again pull in as many guest artists as possible. Shaman features a slew of stars, but, despite their presence, the instrumental "Victory Is Won" is the stando...
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santana sucks
tabla's to annoying cheesy crappy solo's for 40 mins.....no thanks. This is the elevator music from hell.

BAD EDIT
The Essential SANTANA This album is a really really bad edit. The songs cut into each other. Tracks from the albums these songs were taken from start a few bars before the song which is supose to be playing starts. I like carlos work very much, but the producers of this album really suck big time. I am thinking about re-editing this album and burning it for myself. It drives me nuts. That is why I could not recomend this album. Buy the individual songs and put it together yourself. Don't wast your money on album unless you plan on doing your own edit to fix it up. ULTIMATE SANTANA on the other hand is a very good edit. But it does not contain all the tracks found on Essential.

A must-have for the Classic Rock fan!
Owner of an extensive Classic Rock collection, mostly "Best of" compilations, I found this to be hugely worthwhile! There's about 10 (out of 35?) songs that prove to be as good as anything else I have. (Almost all the rest are forgettable.) 5-star songs I've never heard on the radio. I couldn't be happier with it!

Nearly perfect
The Essential Santana, like most releases in the Essential series is missing one key track. That track is "Hope You're Feeling Better" from Abraxas. Other than that the track listing is stellar, except it would've been nice to have the studio version of "Dance Sister Dance".

An excellent collection!
Mexico native Carlos Santana gives his fans his best recording just like any other artist on any essential/ultimate compilation. Carlos' career began in or around 1969 or '70,one of his first Top 20 hits being EVIL WAYS. Other memorable tunes include WINNING from his 1981 album ZEBOP!. When I first heard the tune,I thought it was Journey frontman Steve Perry singing(Journey are Carlos' Columbia Records labelmates). I found out one of Carlos' bandmates is a vocal clone of Perry. I also heard the Perry clone on HOLD ON from 1982's SHANGO. Another great tune is STORMY,a cover of the Classic IV's 1968 hit. The other songs are great.