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Soul Man: Santana

Vernon Gibbs, Crawdaddy!, February 1973

CARLOS SANTANA laid his gleamingly new Gibson double electric white lead carefully on the stage of The Academy of Music and the M.C. reverently requested a silence. Someone lit a stick of incense and Carlos leaned a prayer in a direction which after careful calculation I have deduced to have been something other than East.

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