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Carlos Santana: Why 1972's divisive, spiritual 'Caravanserai' wasn't 'career suicide'

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4.5673 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre sit down with Carlos Santana to talk about nurturing his spirit, growing as an artist and 50 years of Caravanserai, an iconic album he co-produced with drummer Michael Shrieve.

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Is talking to Santana, like, kind of one of your top-top dream interviews?

0:30.3

You know, it's difficult because I know too much.

0:35.1

You know?

0:36.2

Like, how do you not sound like a stalker know too much?

0:39.0

Yeah, exactly.

0:40.5

Yeah, exactly.

0:42.1

Or how to make the conversation accessible to everybody who doesn't know as much as, you know,

0:48.1

diehard Santana fans do.

0:49.5

That's a little difficult because there's, you know, he's a complex guy and there's a long career.

0:53.8

And it's sort of like Duke Ellington where you can like have different aspects of his career

0:58.8

based on what year. Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, all of those people, in fact, some of the people

1:04.1

that he actually admires, it's that way. You kind of think about where you want to dip your

1:08.7

toe in. It was really cool, I think, to get that sense from you.

1:13.0

Because I feel like up until now, a lot of the people we've interviewed

1:16.7

have very much been, like, a lot more in my lane

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