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By Eric Snider on Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 5:00 am

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III

SANTANA

Columbia/Legacy

Let's visit yesteryear, well before Carlos became little more than a special guest star on Santana albums. Santana III showcases an exceedingly tight band digging into grooves that are even more Latin-oriented than Santana's first two LPs. Two terrific songs balance the salsa/jam workouts: "No One to Depend On" and "Everything's Coming Our Way." This album unveiled 15-year-old guitarist Neal Schon, a firebrand with a wah-wah fetish who clearly needs some seasoning. While the communally minded Carlos lets his protégé hog way too much of the solo time, at least Schon brings some beguiling dual-guitar harmonies to the party. This newly minted, two-disc Legacy edition has three previously unreleased studio jams (with a decided Latin bent) and a second disc capturing the band in a fiery live set at Fillmore West on July 4, 1971.

About The Author

Eric Snider

Eric Snider is the dean of Bay area music critics. He started in the early 1980s as one of the founding members of Music magazine, a free bi-monthly. He was the pop music critic for the then-St. Petersburg Times from ‘87-’93. Snider was the music critic, arts editor and senior editor of Weekly Planet/Creative...

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