Artist: SANTANA
Album: INNER SECRETS (CD)

Release date: 1978/ 2004
EAN/UPS: 5099749837126
Media type: CD

Since he had joined Santana in 1972, keyboard player Tom Coster had been Carlos Santana's right-hand man, playing, co-writing, co-producing, and generally taking the place of founding member Greg Rolie. But Coster left the band in the spring of 1978, to be replaced by keyboardist/guitarist Chris Solberg and keyboardist Chris Rhyme. Despite the change, the band soldiered on, and with Inner Secrets, they scored three chart singles: the disco-ish "One Chain (Don't Make No Prison)" (#59), "Stormy" (#32), and a cover of Buddy Holly's "Well All Right" (#69), done in the Blind Faith arrangement. (There seems to be a Steve Winwood fixation here. The album also featured a cover of Traffic's "Dealer.") The singles kept the album on the charts longer than any Santana LP since 1971, but it was still a minor disappointment after Moonflower, and in retrospect seems like one of the band's more compromised efforts.

TRACKLIST CD:

01   "Dealer/Spanish Rose" (Capaldi/Santana) – 5:50
02    "Move On" (Santana, Rhyne) – 4:27
03    "One Chain (Don't Make No Prison)" (Extended disco version) (Lambert, Potter) – 7:13
04    "Stormy" (Buie, Cobb) – 4:45
05    "Well All Right" (Petty, Holly, Allison, Mauldin) – 4:09
06    "Open Invitation" (Santana, Lambert, Potter, Walker, Margen) – 4:45
07    "Life Is a Lady/Holiday" (Lambert/Santana) – 3:47
08    "The Facts of Love" (Lambert, Potter) – 5:28
09    "Wham!" (Santana, Lear, Peraza, Rekow, Escovedo) – 3:24

LINE-UP:

Greg Walker – lead vocals
Carlos Santana – guitar, backing vocals
Chris Solberg – guitar, backing vocals
Chris Rhyne – keyboards
David Margen – bass
Graham Lear – drums
Armando Peraza – percussion, backing vocals
Raul Rekow – percussion, backing vocals
Pete Escovedo – percussion