Woodstock Experience [Digipak]

Performer: Santana
Engineer: Eddie Kramer
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Audio Mixer: Eddie Kramer. Audio Remasterer: Vic Anesini. Considering that Santana's epic instrumental jam, "Soul Sacrifice," is often counted among the highest high points of the classic rock movie WOODSTOCK and of the festival it documents, it's easy to forget that to nearly all the reported half-million people in attendance, the multi-racial San Francisco group was completely unknown. Inserted on the bill at the last minute by legendary promoter (and the band's manager) Bill Graham, the young group took full advantage of the tremendous opportunity, delivering its powerful, highly rhythmic mixture of psychedelic rock and Latin sounds with a vengeance, in the process upstaging many of the concert's headliners. THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE captures the sextet's complete set (along with its first studio album, released just weeks after Woodstock), and despite a few tuning issues, Santana's percussion, organ, and lead guitar-driven fury on classic early tracks such as "Jingo" and "Persuasion" remains positively electrifying.

Carlos Santana is one of those rare guitarists whose sound is instantly recognizable. His fiery, soulful blend of rock, blues, and Latin music made his band, also named Santana, an international success. From 1960s San Francisco psychedelia to '70s fusion to enormously successful pop crossovers in the early 2000s, Carlos Santana has remained a respected and influential force in music. Though he scored hits with his band from the late '60s to the early '80s, Santana operated under the mainstream radar for much of the '80s and '90s until the multi-platinum 1999 "comeback" album, SUPERNATURAL, studded with pop-star collaborations, brought him (and the band) a whole new audience.

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