Santana: Inner Secrets
Max Bell, NME, 11 November 1978
HOLY KRISHNA! His beneficence returns to the fold of lesser mortals for the annual Santana lesson, that quest whose purpose is boundless, ineffable. Wondrous Santana, your practice makes perfect, you are the musical equivalent of a civil servant, everything in triplicate.
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