Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Santana - Abraxas


Santana - Abraxas.  This is a request post.  Over on my Linkedin group that I moderate (Vinyl Record Collectors), a guy - Randy - mentioned that this great album has two song pairs best played in order. They are: Black Magic Woman & Oye Como Va.   The great Michael Shrieve drums on this album.  His was perhaps the finest bit (from a techincal standpoint) of playing captured on the feature-length Woodstock movie/documentary.   The once and future Journy keyboard player - Greg Rolie - is on this record.  As for the above album cover artwork: Abdul Mati Klarwein (April 9, 1932 – March 7, 2002) was a painter best known for his works used on the covers of music albums.


The inside of the record album cover.



2 comments:

  1. Samba Pa Ti... back in olden times when radio stations signed off at midnight, and back on at 6 AM, a local station used this as their sign on, and my clock radio hit it every morning, A great tune to wake up to!

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  2. ran into him getting off an elevator recently...I was dumbfounded...

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