"Supernatural" cannot be simply viewed as Carlos Santana's "comeback album," it is too well-executed and performed for that kind of poor labeling. It is the album that brought Santana back firmly into the spotlight, yes, but is nonetheless a masterpiece, vibrating with musical brilliance and creativity seldom seen in music today. It rightfully won 9 Grammys and scored numerous radio hits including "Smooth" and "Maria Maria." What makes this such a special album is how Santana and his incredible band come together with artists from such diverse musical styles and create beautiful, hypnotic, masterful songs, providing an exploration of every popular music style of the past few decades. The opener is wonderful Latin flavored dance music with a nice jazzy feel in some areas. But the album really picks up steam with the second track, "Love Of My Life," collaborating with Dave Matthews and Dave Matthews Band drummer Carter Beuford, they create one of the album's classic, timeless tracks. It is samba mixed with jazz and classical style and really manages to create atmosphere and mood. Matthews' vocals are milky rich and very cool and jazzy. The next track, "Put Your Lights On" is Santana showing off a darker, heavier side with threatening, deep lyrics and a solo of pure metal virtuosity. "Samba Pa Ti" is a cool taste of Brazilian-styled music and some of Santana's best soloing in the album. And of course, next comes "Smooth," THE song from this CD. It conquered the airwaves in that active summer of 1999 and is still very much played today. It is exhilarating salsa-flavored hard rock featuring the Santana band playing like never before. Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20 does a great job here and wrote the song which sounds like hip street poetry with an edge ("my muequita, my Spanish Harlem mona lisa"). Santana though, steals the show here with rhythmic, brilliant guitar work. The only weak number here is "Do You Like The Way," which was made with Lauryn Hill. Granted, Hill is a very good artist, but here we get a song where we are always waiting for it to get SOMEWHERE but never does. It is the only boring number in the entire CD. "Maria Maria" is artistic in an interesting way, inventive and also sounds like cool street poetic rhymes. The final track, "The Calling," is an energetic solo with Eric Clapton but takes on more the form of simple jamming than a complete song. It works, but I expected more would be done with an artist of Clapton's calibur. Still, it is a great jam nonetheless. "Supernatural" is a milestone in Santana's career, his lightning-finger work is stainless and he manages to create unique sounds and makes his guitar sing like no other guitarist can. It is always required that when one lists the great electric guitar rockers of all time, Hendrix, Clapton, Vauhguan, one must put Santana on that list. Here is one of his greatest accomplishments.