Festival (Santana album)
Festivál is the eighth studio album by Santana, released in January 1977. It peaked number twenty seven in the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart and number twenty nine in the Soul LPs chart.
This was the band's second and last album with Leon Patillo on vocals, and the last full-studio album for longtime members keyboardist Tom Coster and percussionist José "Chepitó" Areas. It also was the first one with percussionist Raul Rekow, who would remain with the band until 2013.
Leon Patillo would later record a version of "The River" for his 1982 album I'll Never Stop Lovin' You, retitled just "River".
Critical reception
Rolling Stone wrote: "Though this record is far stronger on the whole than Amigos, it lacks that album’s memorable chordal quirks and peaks of intensity, sometimes sounding like a prisoner of its own commercial aspirations."Track listing
Side one
- "Carnaval" – 2:15
- "Let the Children Play" – 3:28
- "Jugando" – 2:12
- "Give Me Love" – 4:29
- "Verão Vermelho" – 5:00
- "Let the Music Set You Free" – 3:39
Side two
- "Revelations" – 4:37
- "Reach Up" – 5:23
- "The River" – 4:53
- "Try a Little Harder" – 5:04
- "María Caracóles" – 4:32
Personnel
- Oren Waters – vocals, background vocals
- Maxine Willard Waters – vocals, background vocals
- Francisco Zavala – vocals, background vocals
- Carlos Santana – guitar, bass, percussion, vocals, background vocals
- Leon Patillo – keyboards, percussion, piano, vocals, background vocals
- Tom Coster – keyboards, percussion, synthesizer, vocals
- Pablo Téllez – bass, percussion, vocals, background vocals
- Paul Jackson – bass
- Gaylord Birch – drums, percussion, tympani
- José "Chepitó" Areas – conga, percussion, timbales
- Raul Rekow – conga, percussion, background vocals
- Joel Badie – percussion, vocals, background vocals
- Julia Waters – background vocals
- Fred Catero – engineer
- David Rubinson – engineer, producer
Charts