On 2016’s Santana IV, Carlos Santana brought back most of the surviving musicians who made 1971’s Santana III. On his new album Africa Speaks, (out June 7th) the guitarist went in a wildly different direction, recording with an eight piece band – including vocals of Afro-Latin singer Buika and Santana’s wife Cindy Blackman on drums – with Rick Rubin over ten days at Rubin’s Shangri La Studios in Malibu. “It feels like this ...
Bethel Woods has announced that Ringo Starr and Santana will lead the original Woodstock site’s 50th anniversary celebration to the legendary 1969 festival. New York’s Bethel Woods Center for the Arts’ half-centennial event – a separate festival from the one being organized by original Woodstock founder Michael Lang in Watkins Glen, New York – will also feature performances by Edgar Winter Band and the Doobie Brothers during August 15th through the 18th, that exact dates of the original festival. ...
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