{"id":11058,"date":"2016-06-27T05:45:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T09:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11058"},"modified":"2016-06-26T17:06:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T21:06:24","slug":"album-mini-review-santana-santana-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/27\/album-mini-review-santana-santana-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Santana &#8212; Santana IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/santana_iv.jpg\" alt=\"santana_iv\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11059\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/santana_iv.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/santana_iv-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><iframe style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=as_ss_li_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B01AVMS8KA&#038;asins=B01AVMS8KA&#038;linkId=3f35d7f04d3ab84d746b6016afab1332&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFile next to: <strong>El Chicano<\/strong>, <strong>Led Zeppelin<\/strong>, <strong>Jimi Hendrix<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After decades of spotty, sometimes less-than-inspired albums (not to mention underwhelming guest spots and collaborations), <strong>Carlos Santana<\/strong> has reassembled most of his Woodstock-era band&#8217;s lineup to create an album that picks up right where they left off in 1971. The Latin\/African vibe key to Santana&#8217;s appeal is vibrant and alive throughout <i>Santana IV<\/i>. \u201cAnywhere You Want to Go\u201d sounds like a lost tune from 1971. The group often channels that bygone era: parts of \u201cYambu\u201d suggest Led Zeppelin&#8217;s \u201cWhole Lotta Love.\u201d Throughout, the guitars of Santana and <strong>Neal Schon<\/strong> are on fire, and <strong>Michael Shrieve<\/strong>&#8216;s brutal yet finessed drumming is at the heart of all the songs. <strong>Greg Rolie<\/strong>&#8216;s organ, piano and vocals sound and feel familiar in the best possible way, and <strong>Karl Perazzo<\/strong> does an admirable job of evoking the original group&#8217;s peerless percussion. <strong>Thomas Wolfe<\/strong> be damned: sometimes you can go home again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: El Chicano, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix After decades of spotty, sometimes less-than-inspired albums (not to mention underwhelming guest spots and collaborations), Carlos Santana has reassembled most of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[2760,2759],"class_list":["post-11058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-michael-shrieve","tag-santana","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11060,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058\/revisions\/11060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}