Santana III

Before the original band broke up, Santana added teenaged guitarist Neal Schon to trade licks with Carlos. The move made for an album that\'s all about instrumental firepower: It\'s telling that the single \"No One to Depend On\" had exactly one line of lyric. There\'s a pure Latin groove on \"Guajira\" and a rare Carlos vocal on the uplifting rocker \"Everything\'s Coming Our Way.\" A loose translation of the closing number, Tito Puente\'s \"Para Los Rumberos,\" gets it right: This one is \"for the swingers.\"

Santana III is an album that undeservingly stands in the shadows behind the towering legend that is the band's second album, Abraxas.