Santana is the debut studio album by American Latin rock band Santana. It was released on August 22, 1969. Over half of the album's length is composed of instrumental music, recorded by what was originally a purely free-form jam band.

Aug 27, 2019 · Released two weeks after the band’s historical performance at the Woodstock festival, Santana’s debut album featured the hits Jingo and Evil Ways and a brilliant studio performance of Soul Sacrifice, the instrumental that forever immortalized the group in the movie that documented the festival.

The discography of the rock band Santana formed by the Mexican-American rock guitarist Carlos Santana consists of 26 studio albums, 8 live albums, 61 singles, and 23 compilation albums. [1] Santana formed in 1967 in San Francisco and was originally known …

Nov 7, 2022 · The album artwork on the cover of Santana’s 1970 album, Abraxas, is the work of the psychedelic surrealist, Mati Klarwein. His 1961 painting, Annunciation, was one of the first paintings that the German-French painter did after relocating to New York City.

Mar 14, 2008 · The cover of Santana’s debut record was adapted (at Santana’s request) from a poster design originally done for a concert performance at Bill Graham’s legendary San Francisco venue, the Fillmore West.

Our Top 10 Santana Album Covers looks at the best, most entertaining, inspiring and unique album covers that the band has ever released.

This image from 1968 by Lee Conklin was used as the cover for Santana's first album, but the poster from 1968, roughly 14 by 21 inches, lists Steppenwolf, the Grateful Dead, the Staple Singers, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band more prominently.

Santana is the first studio album made by Santana, an American Latin rock band. It was released on June 22, 1969. More than half of the album is instrumental music. This was because Santana was a jam band, and they played music without singing. The singles from the album have singing.

In 1978 Carlos Santana commissioned Venosa to do the cover art for his first solo album, ' Silver Dreams, Golden Reality 'and, later, the logo design for 'Guts and Grace', Santana's own record company.

Jan 25, 2009 · This first album contains classic examples of each: “Soul Sacrifice” and Babatunde Olatunji’s “Jingo” in the jam department, “Evil Ways” as the quintessential Santana cover, “Shades of Time” as the clever original.