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Santana is the debut studio album by Latin rock band Santana released in 1969. It is a release of largely instrumental music, recorded by what was originally a purely free-form jam band. At the suggestion of manager Bill Graham, the band took to writing more conventional songs for more impact, but managed to retain the essence of improvisation in the music. The album was destined to be a major release, given a headstart by the band’s seminal performance at the Woodstock Festival earlier that August. Although “Jingo” failed to chart (only reaching #56), “Evil Ways”, the second single taken from the album, was a U.S. Top 10 hit. The album peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200 pop album chart. It has been mixed and released in both stereo and quadraphonic. In 2003 the album was... Read on...