SantanaBest Santana Albums Ranked

Abraxas

consequence

10

“The legendary guitarist and band search for and discover a sound they can truly call their own”

The Woodstock Experience: Santana

rollingstone

8.0

“If it had all been sun-shine and clockwork, with a tidy profit on the morning after, no one would have said another word. Instead, the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, held August 15th to 17th, 1969, near Bethel, New York — a refugee-camp experience officially declared a state disaster area on the second day — […]”

Santana

rollingstone

8.0

“Santana’s 1969 debut album followed close on the heels of the sextet’s coming-out party at the Woodstock Festival, where the multiethnic, single-minded San Francisco band nearly stole the show from the likes of the Grateful Dead and Sly and the Family Stone. Santana was a nonstop thirty-seven-minute rhythmic onslaught: Hand percussionists Mike Carabello and Chepito […]”

Milagro

rollingstone

8.0

“After releasing his first twenty-six recordings on CBS/Sony, Carlos Santana begins a new phase of his career with Milagro, one of the finest sessions he’s done. The album reaffirms Santana’s position as the standard-bearer for fusion music. Santana is the most successful practitioner of fusion because he understands the style not as a souped-up rock-jazz […]”

Spirits Dancing In the Flesh

rollingstone

8.0

“An unlikely yin and yang have possessed Carlos Santana throughout his career: Mystic and materialist, the guitarist has vacillated between playing to the heavens and playing to the gallery. Though rarely willing to craft something devoid of artistic qualities, Santana is also mindful of being a pop star. Reconciling these two facets of his personality […]”

Supernatural (Remastered) [Bonus Track Version]

rollingstone

7.0

“At first glance, Supernatural — Carlos Santana’s first album for Arista — looks like a record that’s been A&R’ed and special-guested to death. Certainly the label’s president, Clive Davis, has taken his well-established multiproducer, star-studded approach to revitalizing the veteran guitar great’s career. Supernatural features contributions from Dave Matthews, Wyclef Jean, Everlast, Lauryn Hill, Eagle-Eye […]”