ONCE UPON A TIME.....Havana Moon

 

CARLOS SANTANA  Havana Moon  (CBS,1983) - Rock


     Havana Moon is Carlos Santana's Tex-Mex album. Granted, the pairing of this Latin-rock guitarist with a Texas-based blues band like the Fabulous Thunderbirds is not an image that would readily come to most people's minds when they thought of Tex-Mex music. But for Santana, who grew up in Tijuana listening to the likes of Bobby Bland and Jimmy Reed, a song like Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love" is as much a part of his musical background as a traditional Spanish ballad like "Vereda Tropical," and both of those tunes are included on this LP. More to the point, Santana connects several disparate strains with remarkable ease. "Who Do You Love," for example, uses the same nasty shuffle beat as Diddley's original 1956 recording but mixes in an underpinning of Latin percussion that doesn't so much change the beat as enhance it. Similarly, "Havana Moon" manages to present the Caribbean rhythms Chuck Berry's version could only imply, yet the song never loses its rock & roll charm.

TRACKLIST : Watch Your Step
                    Lightnin'
                    Who Do You Love?
                    Mudbone
                    One With You
                    Ecuador
                    Tales Of Kilimanjaro
                    Havana Moon
                    Daughter Of The Night
                    They All Went To Mexico
                    Vereda Tropical

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