Santana Caravanserai

As the Beach Boys had “Pet Sounds” and the Beatles “Sgt. Pepper”, Santana has “Caravanserai”, an album that transcended all the group’s previous work and launched them into an ethereal other world.
More than 30 years have passed since its debut, yet it still remains the finest album released by Carlos Santana in any of his incarnations.
Several new members joined the band for this album and the musicianship is out of the world.
Haunting melodies and driving rhythms led by Carlos’ blazing guitar carry the listeners on a musical journey they will not soon forget.

Santana

More than 35 years after its initial release, Santana's first album still remains fresh and relevant.
Latin rhythyms, rock and blues all merge together to form Santana's unique sound.
This "30th Anniversary Edition" has been digitally remastered and sounds great.
The icing on the cake is the three bonus tracks from Santana's electrifying Woodstock performance, a performance that shot the band into national prominence and deservedly so.
The original Santana band lineup was to go on to make 2 more excellent albums (Abraxas and III) before parting ways but neither of them, nor the albums that followed with other musicians, capture the raw energy of the group the way this first album did.

Blues Image "Open"

Open is the best of the Blue Image's three albums.
It combines latin rhythm with bluesy rock and comes up with a unique sound.
Their big hit "Ride Captain Ride" is a good song but really isn't representative of the music on this album.
Anyway, I'm glad to see this fantastic album made it to CD. The sound is great and there are some nice liner notes to boot!