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Title: Superficial and depressing
Review: His guitar still sounds like no one else. But the rest of this travesty of a CD with its Vegas-styled Latin rhythms and slicker than slick production, plus those desperate collaborations make Santana sound as compelling as Hootie and the Blowfish. This is what the Beach Boys' "Kokomo" was to "Good Vibrations" or Grace Slick singing "White Rabbit" versus "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now." I'm happy for Carlos Santana's success, but did it have to happen with such an innocuous and calculated group of songs? A corporate record and totally dispensable. Many Grammy's are sure to follow.
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