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Carlos Santana Is So Legendary That He Gets His Own Rate-A-Record Story
He deserves no less
I normally don’t do two music articles in a row, but in order to keep my addiction to the Rate-A-Record phenomenon at a manageable level I’m trying to limit them to one per week, publishing on Sundays. If I don’t put in some guardrails I’m liable to do three a week, and that’s too much for even the hardest of hardcore music fans. Yes, even you Pierce McIntyre.
Today’s installment actually owes its genesis to the Halloween playlist article I published yesterday. Somehow, with thirteen songs to choose from, the one that’s been stuck in my head for over 24 hours is Santana’s classic cover of the Fleetwood Mac song “Black Magic Woman.” Did your brain just break when you read that? Yes, one of his best-known songs is a cover of a Peter Green-led Fleetwood Mac song from 1968. If your brain broke further that a guy named Peter Green was in Fleetwood Mac, you need to have a long chat with Terry Barr, Alex Markham, and David Acaster.
But enough of the musical history lesson. The bottom line is that I have Santana on the brain, and after this you will too. As I’ve said more times now than I can count, this madness began with a story/prompt from noted trickster Terry Barr, who took the idea from the old American Bandstand segment of the same name in…
