Santana: Supernatural | Legacy Edition (Coming Feb 16th, 2010)

With
a chart record that now spans five decades – from the ’60s to the ’00s
– and one of the most consistently best-selling catalogs in modern
recording history, Santana’s torrid gumbo of blues-rock, rhythm and
soul, Afro-Cuban jazz, Mexicano, and world music flavors is an enduring
wonder of contemporary popular music. More than 40 summers after their
trail-blazing Saturday afternoon performance at the Woodstock Music
& Arts Fair on August 16, 1969, and the release of their iconic
debut LP three days later, Santana occupies a unique status among
surviving American bands.

A decade ago in June 1999, 30 summers
after Woodstock, Santana released an album destined to be the biggest
of their career. Supernatural, a long-overdue reunion between producers
Carlos Santana and Clive Davis, brought fresh collaborations with (in
alphabetical order) Cee-Lo, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Eric Clapton, Everlast,
Lauryn Hill, Mexican supergroup Mana, Dave Matthews and bandmate Carter
Beauford, producers the Dust Brothers, KC Porter, Wyclef Jean, and
others. The album spun off two huge RIAA platinum #1 hits – “Smooth”
featuring Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty, and “Maria Maria, ” produced
by Wyclef Jean, featuring his hip-hop proteges the Product G&B –
the first Hot 100 #1 hits of Santana’s career. They spent a cumulative
half-year at #1 and paved the way for the album to amass chart honors
and generate Grammy Awards® beyond anyone’s imaginations or
expectations (except, of course, Clive’s).

In commemoration,
Supernatural: Legacy Edition presents the album’s first new remastering
– personally supervised by Carlos – since its original release. In the
tradition of the prestigious Legacy Edition series, the new package
adds a second disc of rarities – 11 tracks, eight of them songs that
were not contained on the album, seven of them previously unissued,
including outtakes, dance club mixes, and instrumental material. A
24-page full-color booklet includes rare photography and memorabilia
from the Santana archives. The specially-designed double-CD package,
encased in the distinctive Legacy Edition mylar slipcase, will be
available at all physical and digital retail outlets starting February
16th through Arista/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT. On
February 3rd, Santana will kick off 11 of the “Supernatural Santana: A
Trip Through the Hits” residency show concert dates at The Joint at
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, running through February
21(st).