Album Review: Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time by Santana

More than a decade ago, Supernatural completely changed Carlos Santana’s career. His Latin-infused classic rock sound was spiced up with a variety of modern Top 40 radio guest vocalists, thus reinventing him to older listeners and introducing him to a new generation. Supernatural is one of those rare albums that was both critically praised and loved by the public, selling millions of copies and winning nine Grammy awards.

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Carlos Santana must wake up every day thanking his lucky stars for Clive Davis. For most of the past four decades, the producer/record company executive has helped keep Santana on commercial track whenever he’s wanted to veer. And it was Davis who, more than a decade ago, started putting Santana together with young, hot singers to help keep his name alive.

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Carlos’ celebrated talent is bound somewhat by the pieces he’s covering here. Mike Diver 2010 Twenty-eight years passed between number one albums for Santana, 1999’s globe-conquering Supernatural the group’s first chart-topper since III of 1971. Since then, the band has enjoyed a spell at the peak of the stateside albums chart with 2002’s Shaman, and 2005’s All That I Am reached number two.

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