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Between Good & Evil

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This Santana collection primarily covers the early years of Santana's brilliant career as a band. It has many of the songs that have helped get him famous, as well as several songs from the landmark Abraxas. However, in my opinion, this is at best a meager assortment of music. It doesn't really progress beyond Abraxas, leaving the listener with only a partial taste of Carlos and his mates. You'd be much better off getting the Best of Santana alum with the ornate red corver design.

This disc does not cover the usual range of Santana "Bests." But, if you're a guitarist looking for one Santana CD, this would be a good one. I'm not sure if Samba Pa Ti and Song of the Wind are on any other one-disc compilation. These are more essential than Black Magic Woman and Evil Ways as examples of Santana's pure melodic and expressive guitar mastery.

What's the point of buying this album if there are so many Santana best of albums out there? This one only has 10 songs. Why bother with it?
As a collection album, only 2/5 stars.

This album is worth a check for any who are partial to Santana's earlier work. Fanatics of the group, however, will be dissapointed and should purchase a more in depth collection.

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