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Santana - All That I Am Audio CD

A fair review of the Santana "All That I Am" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Santana reviews here, or go back to the Santana tabs.

Santana Band: Santana
Title: All That I Am
Rating:
Release Date: 2005-11-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Hermes - Santana 2: Fuego - Santana 3: I'm Feeling You - Michelle Branch, Santana, The Wreckers 4: My Man - Big Boi, Mary J. Blige, Santana 5: Just Feel Better - Santana, Steven Tyler 6: I Am Somebody - Santana, will.i.am, , Will.i.am 7: Con Santana - Santana, Ismaïla Toure, , Sixu Tidiane Touré 8: Twisted - Anthony Hamilton, Santana 9: Trinity - Kirk Hammett, Robert Randolph, Santana 10: Cry Baby Cry - Sean Paul, Santana, Sean Paul, Joss Stone 11: Brown Skin Girl - Bo Bice, Santana 12: I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love 13: Tu Amor - Santana

I can't bring myself to give it a one
I can't help it- I just love the music from that decade. First let me say, I'm a big fan of 70's classic rock.

Now, going into THIS album, I wasn't expecting Santana to have the ability to release another Caravanserai, or another Borboletta (or my personal favorite- Love, Devotion, Surrender with John McLaughlin).

If only I could find the words to describe how shocked I was upon playing some of these songs for the first time. THIS is the new Santana? No, no way. I refuse to believe it. I refuse to believe this kind of disappointing career turn is even possible for such a legendary guitarist. I refuse to believe Santana would change his sound and songwriting style as drastically as *this* album would suggest.

Maybe this album is some kind of quick cash-in joke, or maybe Santana is desperate to stay in the spotlight for as long as possible. I love the mans music *so much* that I can't possibly give All That I Am a 1-star rating. Oh you better believe I'm tempted to, but I won't. The guy obviously has some enormous talent with his ability to shift from bringing me to tears to making me very happy. Not many guitarists can change my emotions like Santana can. With that said, this is NOT an album I recommend. Not at all.

Buy Caravanserai, Welcome, or ANYTHING from the 70's before buying this. Please! We can only hope one day Santana goes back to those experimental 70's days and releases something truly incredible. .


Great CD Interesting Genre

Favorite song is with Michelle Branch "I'm feeling you"!
This song is in my estimation a masterpiece. Santana moves out into a new more hip hop style genre in this fantastic CD.


Santana is the bomb!
I started going to his concerts in 2005 when I was offered a free ticket. Excellent CD!!!!!!

I am a big Santana fan. Unfortunately this CD can't compare to a live concert, but when I want to remember what an excellent entertainer he is, I pull out this CD and it takes me back. His music is unique and can be enjoyed over and over again. .


Far from home


But now that Santana is an established household name, perhaps he can consider returning to the kind of music that made him so critically acclaimed and accepted. It appears that Carlos Santana's latest outing was created to appeal to the widest audience possible.

To my mind, Santana's greatest moments were during the Caravanserai-Welcome-Borboletta chapter. It was, indeed, a ground-breaking period in his career. A time when, musically, enlightenment and understatement meant something.

Carlos Santana is best when he is experimenting. And he has created a temple of followers that have hung with him over the years. But, with All That I Am, I am lost. And, as a fan, I am truly far from home.
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good CD - too bad about copyright law
Santana has always put out a good CD, especially with these collaborations with other popular artists . . my gripe has to do with not being able to rip mp3's onto my PC, in order to make mp3 discs for my car audio mp3-capable disc changer - a very nice Chrysler feature (one mp3 disc holds approximately 13 audio discs . . . very nice!)

I don't understand why, if you own a CD, you're not allowed to do with it, however you want - even if you were to have a portable mp3 player - the disc WON'T allow anything but WMA audio files through it's built-in software . . . and it only allows THREE backups of the CD [I assume per PC used, hopefully]

this overly-sensitive copyright stuff is going way overboard; if you don't own the CD, then fine you shouldn't be allowed to do with it whatever you think of . . . but I spent my money, which is highly taxed, yet then I cannot put the CD to use as I had hoped upon buying it . . . it's my money, i own the CD, what's the problem?

back to the CD . . . very nice tracks with Steven Tyler, Los Lonely Boys and Kirk Hammett / Robert Randolph - nice job again from Mr Santana!!.


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