This album mostly sounds like really, really good background lounge music.  Much of it sounds the same.  I know Carlos Santana plays a mean guitar, but I often feel he is technically skilled, but the emotion of his playing  is lost on me.  The song with Everlast is pretty good, but  "Smooth" is an inexplicable hit to me.  I played this CD twice,  and I'll be taking it to the local Hastings to sell to them.  I'm sure I'm  just missing out on what everyone else loves about this CD, but I have to  be honest...I wasted my money on it.