Roots [Import]

Gregg Rolie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 3, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sanctuary
• ASIN: B00005M09J
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,828 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Give It to Me

2. Down to Rio

3. Love Is Everything

4. In My Skin

5. Ordinary Man

6. Going Home

7. Domingo [Instrumental]

8. That's the Way It Goes

9. Con Todo Mi Corazón

10. Breakin' My Heart

11. Let It Slide

12. Orient Express

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gregg Rollie is one half of the best Santana band ever, January 8, 2005

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R. J. Haynes "Santana Fan" (Teays Valley, WV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roots (Audio CD)

Roots is not as good as the first three Santana albums, it's not as good as Abraxas Pool or even Gringo but it's close. It sounds more like Santana (the group) than anything Carlos has done lately.

Please Carlos call Gregg and Neal and Chepito and put the band back together !

Gregg Rollie is the most underappreciated man in rock. He left the best incarnation of Santana to form Journey and eventually left to form Storm and do some great solo stuff, the best of which was Gringo. Roots is no Abraxas but it's as close as we'll get for now.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Santana sound, December 30, 2001

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Space Monkey (deep space) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Roots (Audio CD)

The name is appropriate as this sounds like a old Santana
record.  Having Mike Carabello (original Santana conga
player) and Alphonso Johnson (who Played on "Blues
for Salvador") doesn't hurt.  Dave Amato on guitar is doing
a pretty good Carlos imitation on guitar.  His playing
on the instrumental "Domingo" is really nice.   Neal Schon shows up on one track with some Signature Journey leads.
But It is the percussion section with Mike and Ron Wikso on drums and Adrian Areas on Timabales that really drive the record.  Alphonso is wonderful also. He really leads the groove on "Let it slide".  Gregg sounds great on Vocals and keys. He plays a wonderful Hammond B3 solo on "Give it to me"  his vocal on "Ordinary Man" is really sweet and glides over the bossa nova rhythms. His voice sounds really good.  Glad to have him back making great music.

If you dig early Santana, you owe to yourself to
get this record, turn up your sub woofer, crank it
up and dance your...off.  I had a hard time
making breakfast this morning because I
could not stop dancing!

This is a wonderful CD.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gregg Rolie who sang "Black Magic Woman" scores again., July 27, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Roots (Audio CD)

The new Roots record has been picked as the "hit record of the summer" by Cottage Views Classic Rock News. Who is Gregg Rolie, you say? Gregg Rolie is the lead singer, keyboardist that co-founded Santana. He is the singer who founded Journey (and wisely departed when Steve Perry began to sugarcoat the group). Gregg Rolie has been fine tuning his writing skills and has returned to the scene by writing and arranging the kind of latin rhythms that first brought him to our attention. Roots is a combination of Santana, Gipsy Kings and Gregg Rolie. Songs on the album "Give It To Me", Con Todo Mi Corazon, Breakin My Heart are each capable of being hits on radio. You'll want to listen to them and for that matter, the whole album, again and again. "Roots is the kind of album that sounds like beams of sunlight cutting through low riding clouds in a blue summer sky", says Michael Cimino of Cottage Views. Dig it!