Carlos Santana ~ Supernatural *CLOSED*

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since the defining and most critically acclaimed album of the 1990′s was released.  That’s right, Supernatural is celebrating it’s 10th Anniversary of the multi-platinum album.  Who doesn’t remember jammin’ to that delicious tune, Smooth?  It’s one of my favorites still!

Legacy Recordings is proud to announce that this year is the 10th anniversary of the release of Carlos Santana’s Grammy Award winning album, Supernatural.  In honor of this event, they are releasing a Legacy Edition Supernatural CD.  The Legacy Edition includes the phenomenally successful original album completely re-mastered under Carlos Santana’s supervision, a bonus disc jam packed with almost 70 minutes of rare and unreleased material, and a full color book with new liner notes, rare photos, memorabilia and more!

I first started listening to Santana in high school, the mid-90′s.  At that time, I was all over the artists who played at Woodstock.  Yeah, Santana was there.  It’s amazing that 30 summers after Woodstock, Santana would release an album destined to be their biggest of their career.  Now, it’s been 40 years….wow.

In the tradition of the prestigious Legacy Edition series, the new package adds a second disc of rarities – 11 tracks, eight of them songs that were not contained on the album, seven of them previously unissued, including outtakes, dance club mixes, and instrumental material.  A 24-page full-color booklet includes rare photo­graphy and memo­rabilia from the Santana archives.  The specially-designed double-CD package, encased in the distinctive Legacy Edition mylar slipcase, will be available at all physical and digital retail outlets starting February 16^th through Arista/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.  Santana kicked off 11 of the “Supernatural Santana: A Trip Through the Hits” residency show concert dates at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, running through February 21^st.

In addition to music, Carlos Santana has a line of shoes and handbags.

Gorgeous, are the not?  Seriously, I’m in love!

Mexican-born Carlos Santana organized the original Santana Blues Band in elbarrio of San Francisco in 1966.  From the very onset, their embrace of the full musical spectrum drew audiences into packed clubs and ballrooms around the Bay area.  Credit Fillmore West impresario Bill Graham for bringing Santana to the attention of Clive Davis, who signed the band to Columbia Records after seeing their Christmas week 1968 premiere at the venue.  Twenty-five years after Woodstock, Santana was one of only three acts from the original festival invited back to play at Woodstock ’94.  Their odyssey, which reached the highest heights with their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in January 1998, soared to even loftier peaks with the success of Supernatural.

DISC ONE

1. (DA LE) YALEO
2. LOVE OF MY LIFE-Featuring Dave Matthews & Carter Beauford
3. PUT YOUR LIGHTS ON-Featuring Everlast
4. AFRICA BAMBA
5. SMOOTH -Featuring Rob Thomas
6. DO YOU LIKE THE WAY-Featuring Lauryn Hill & Cee-Lo
7. MARIA MARIA -Featuring The Product G&B
8. MIGRA
9. CORAZON ESPINADO-Featuring Manà
10. WISHING IT WAS -Featuring Eagle-Eye Cherry
11. EL FAROL
12. PRIMAVERA
13. THE CALLING -Featuring Eric Clapton

DISC TWO

1. BACALAO CON PAN *
2. ANGEL LOVE (COME WITH ME) *
3. RAIN DOWN ON ME* -Featuring Dave Matthews & Carter Beauford
4. CORAZON ESPINADO (Spanish Dance Remix) -Featuring Manà
5. ONE FINE MORNING *
6. EXODUS/GET UP STAND UP *
7. YA YO ME CURE *
8. MARIA MARIA (Pumpin’ Dolls Club Mix) -Featuring The Product G&B
9. SMOOTH (Instrumental)
10. THE CALLING JAM * -Featuring Eric Clapton
11. OLYMPIC FESTIVAL

The bonus content on disc two of SUPERNATURAL: LEGACY EDITION will amaze Santana fans as if hearing a new album.  The bulk of the outtakes that “didn’t make the cut” on the original album are Santana band tracks: “Angel Love (Come For Me)”; “Ya Yo Me Cure”; a cover of Cuban band Irakere’s classic “Bacalao Con Pan” by Chucho Valdes; a cover of Lighthouse’s 1971 hit “One Fine Morning”; the medley of Bob Marley & the Wailers “Exodus/Get Up Stand Up,” all previously unissued; and “Olympic Festival” (from the Girlfight movie soundtrack, 2000). Featured in the SUPERNATURAL: LEGACY EDITION booklet is a 2,000-word liner notes essay written by veteran Albany music journalist Hal Miller, who has annotated previous Legacy releases by Santana (2004’s Santana: Legacy Edition, and 2003’s expanded restorations of the fusion-influenced Caravanserai, Love Devotion Surrender, Welcome, and Moonflower), plus numerous Weather Report reissues.

Supernatural:  Legacy Edition is available for $15.99 at the Santana Store.

*WIN* One extremely lucky Seeryus Mama reader will win a Santana Gift Pack that includes:  10th Anniversary Santana Supernatural CD, a Carlos by Carlos Santana bag (of the winner’s choosing), and a gift certificate for a pair of Carlos by Carlos Santana shoes.  Approximate value, $200!  To enter, tell me one of three things…I want to know what your favorite song by Santana is, or which handbag you’d choose or what pair of shoes you like best.  Simple!  This giveaway will end on March 17, 2010 at 11:59PM CST.

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