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Released
  
November 9, 1973

Length
  
50:34

Artist
  
Santana

Label
  
Columbia Records

Recorded
  
April to June 1973

Welcome (1973)
  
Lotus (1974)

Release date
  
9 November 1973

Genre
  
Jazz fusion

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Producers
  
Carlos Santana, Michael Shrieve, Tom Coster

Similar
  
Caravanserai, Borboletta, Love Devotion, Amigos, Festival

Welcome is the fifth studio album by Santana, released in 1973. It followed the jazz-fusion formula that the preceding Caravanserai had inaugurated, but with an expanded and different lineup this time. Gregg Rolie had left the band along with Neal Schon to form Journey, and they were replaced by Tom Coster and Leon Thomas, along with guest John McLaughlin, who had collaborated with Carlos Santana on Love Devotion Surrender. Welcome also featured John Coltrane's widow, Alice, as a pianist on the album's opening track, "Going Home" and Flora Purim (the wife of Airto Moreira) on vocals. This album was far more experimental than the first four albums, and Welcome did not produce any hit singles.

Contents

In 2003, the album was re-released with a bonus track, "Mantra", which was part of a jam session between Tom Coster, Carlos Santana, and Mike Shrieve.

Band members

  • Carlos Santana – electric guitar (2-5,7-9), acoustic guitar (2), bass guitar (6), kalimba (6), percussion (1,7), vocals (2), producer
  • Tom Coster – Yamaha organ (1,4,6,8), Hammond organ (2,4,5), electric piano (3,7), acoustic piano (6,8,9), organ (7), marimba (6), percussion (3), strings arrangements (7), producer
  • Richard Kermode – Hammond organ (1,3,8), mellotron (1), electric piano (2,4-7,9), acoustic piano (5), marimba (4), shekere (4,6), percussion (3)
  • Douglas Rauch – bass guitar (1-5,7-9)
  • Michael Shrieve – drums (1,2,4-8), producer
  • José "Chepito" Areas – percussion (3,9), congas (3), timbales (2,3,6,7)
  • Armando Peraza – percussion (1,3,9) congas (2,4-8), bongos (4), cabasa (5)
  • Leon Thomas – lead vocals (2, 4, 7), whistling (5)

    • Additional musicians

  • Wendy Haas – vocals (2, 4)
  • Flora Purim – lead vocals (5)
  • John McLaughlin – guitar (8)
  • Joe Farrell – solo flute (4)
  • Bob Yance – flute (4, 5)
  • Mel Martin – flute (4, 5)
  • Douglas Rodriguez – rhythm guitar (4)
  • Tony Smith – drums (3)
  • Jules Broussard – soprano saxophone (6)
  • Greg Adams – strings arrangements (7)

    • Production

  • Glen Kolotkin - engineer
  • Bob Irwin - 2003 CD reissue producer

    • Songs

    1Going Home4:12
    2Love Devotion & Surrender3:39
    3Samba De Sausalito3:11

    References

    Welcome (Santana album) Wikipedia
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