Welcome (Santana album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Welcome
Type = Album
Artist = Santana


Released = November 9, 1973
Recorded = 1973
Genre = Jazz fusion
Length = 50:34 (original release) / 56:46 (2003 remastered edition with bonus track)
Label = Columbia
Producer = Carlos Santana, Mike Shrieve, Tom Coster, Bob Irwin
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:enj9kemt7q7v link]
*Review-Christgau|B+|album=7716
*"Rolling Stone" (not rated) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/santana/albums/album/297098/review/5946927/welcome link]
Last album = "Love Devotion Surrender"
(1973)
This album = "Welcome"
(1973)
Next album = "Lotus"
(1974)

"Welcome" is an album by Santana, released in 1973. It followed the jazz-fusion formula that the preceding "Caravanserai" had followed, with a different lineup this time. Gregg Rolie had left the band along with Neal Schon to form Journey, and they were replaced by Leon Thomas and 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 former wife of Airto Moreira on vocals. Because this album was far more experimental than his first four albums, "Welcome" did not feature any hit singles.

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.

Track listing

ide One

#"Going Home" (Dvorak) – 4:11
#"Love, Devotion, and Surrender" (Kermode, Santana) – 3:38
#"Samba de Sausalito" (Areas) – 3:11
#"When I Look into Your Eyes" (Coster, Shrieve) – 5:52
#"Yours Is the Light" (Kermode, Shrieve) – 5:47

ide Two

#"Mother Africa" (Coster, Mann, Santana) – 5:55
#"Light of Life" (Coster, Kermode, Santana) – 3:52
#"Flame Sky" (McLaughlin, Rauch, Santana) – 11:33
#"Welcome" (Coltrane) – 6:35