1. Going Home
2. Love Devotion & Surrender
3. Samba De Sausalito
4. When I Look Into Your Eyes
5. Yours Is The Light
6. Mother Africa
7. Light Of Life
8. Flame Sky - (11:32)
9. Welcome
Track 8: Carlos Santana, John McLaughlin - guitars; Tom Coster - piano, organ; Richard Kermode - organ; Doug Rauch - bass guitar; Michael Shrieve - drums; Armando Peraza - congas.
Recorded in San Francisco, May 2, 1973.
Produced by Carlos Santana, Michael Shrieve and Tom Coster.
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The membership of Santana continued to change and its music continued to
evolve on the group's
fifth album. "The New Santana Band," as it was called, was now an octet,
consisting of Carlos
Santana, Michael Shrieve, and Jose Areas from the original lineup, plus Doug
Rauch, who had joined
for Caravanserai, Tom Coster and Armando Pereza, who had played on
Caravanserai, and additions
Leon Thomas (formerly with Count Basie) on vocals and Richard Kermode on
keyboards. The major
omissions in this lineup were Greg Rolie and Neal Schon, who had left to
form Journey. (James
Mingo Lewis, who had joined for Caravanserai and played a big part on it,
had also decamped to join
Return To Forever.) The band also added occasional session players,
especially horn players and
vocalists, for selected tracks. Musically, the album was something of a
companion piece to Carlos
Santana's duet album with John McLaughlin, Love Devotion Surrender, even
including a song by that
title and, like the earlier record, containing
compositions by McLaughlin and John Coltrane. In addition to the jazz
influences, there was also a
new blues sound courtesy of Thomas, a smooth-voiced singer in the Joe
Williams tradition. The
record was musically adventurous, but as Santana continued to diverge from
its Latin rock roots, its
popularity eroded: Welcome went gold and hit #25, but that was a far cry
from the five weeks at #1
Santana III had enjoyed two years before. (Although the album had no Hot 100
bits, "When I Look
In Your Eyes" [#102] came close.)
~William Ruhlmann, All-Music Guide
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