Music

January, 1989

Charles M. YoungOf All the boxed-set anthologies to come after the huge success of Eric Clapton's, ¡Viva Santana! (Columbia) is one of the most useful and welcome. A perennial fave in the Playboy Music Poll, Carlos Santana has one of those guitar styles you recognize instantly: highly melodic, informed by the blues, unafraid of rock, inclusive of many Third World sounds and inspired by an admirable sense of humanity. Somehow, the listener feels welcome with Santana, whereas another musician of e...

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