Check out our album review of Artist's The Essential Santana on Rolling Stone.com. ... stick with Santana's first three albums — classics all. In this article: Carlos Santana, Santana; ...

Three years ago, everyone seemed startled when Carlos Santana went for the gold on ”Supernatural”: How could such a bastion of classic-rock integrity pander to the marketplace so shamelessly ...

Re-packaging Santana's greatest hits is, naturally, nothing new. For one example, there was a previous The Essential Santana released in 2002. That version didn't include samples from his newer ...