Archive for January 28th, 2010
Carlos Santana is a Mexican born rock star whose career spans 5 decades. The unique sound he arrives at from his Gibson custom electric guitar is purely his own.
Today’s generation mostly know him from his many collaborations such as “Smooth” featuring Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty doing the vocals, and Carlos Santana supplying guts of the song with guitar fills and runs that we have come to expect from him.
Some of the kids today might be familiar with some of his older songs like “Evil Ways” and “Black Magic Woman”. These songs were made up of that Latin electric guitar style that drew us all in like a magnet, along the vocals that were provided by Gregg Rolie in those days.
My particular favorite song by Santana is “Everything Is Coming Our Way”. I don’t know why but I consider this a sexy song, I guess it’s just the way it comes across to me. It’s one of the rare songs that features Carlos Santana doing the lead vocals, the solo is provided by a keyboard with Carlos playing rhythm guitar