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Today's Shelf Pull: Santana, Santana III

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Today's Shelf Pull: Santana, Santana III. Read Eamon Lane’s story from Kilmorna in Listowel, with the people, records, art or town life behind it.

Some records arrive with a neat little wave.

Santana III arrives as if the door has opened and the rhythm section has already found the good table.

Santana is on the shelf today, and the sleeve is not exactly easing itself into the room. It has a dark cosmic sort of background, a burst of light doing more work than most chandeliers, and that yellow figure on the right looking as if gravity has been temporarily asked to wait outside. There is a red and yellow flare down the left too, just in case anyone thought the cover might run out of business.

It will not.

On the shelf today

Santana - Santana III

LP / World / Latin / 1971

EUR31 / Available now

Order / Reserve