Long before world music was a genre on record store shelves or even had a name, for that matter Carlos Santana and the band that bears his name were laying down the tracks that would bring homegrown electric American music to the four corners of the globe. In turn, the music ricocheted back to our shores, filtered through the musical waterfalls of Afro-pop and Afro-beat, Caribbean voodoo-rock, and a dozen geopolitical musical zones that took Santana to heart as one of their own.

In many ways, the bands career is bookended by Santana, Abraxas and Santana III on one end of the timeline, and three decades later Supernatural, Shaman and All That I Am at the other end of the timeline. The myriad adventures in between starting with the 20-year association of Carlos Santana and Columbia Records, and coming full circle to nearly a decade now with Clive Davis at Arista have been chronicled in even more books than there are original studio and live albums in the official Santana catalogue (more than 35 titles to date on Columbia, Columbia/Legacy, Polydor, and Arista).

Coming in 2009, the WoodStock Edition of Santana (June 30), and the 10th Anniversary Legacy Edition of Supernatural (August 25).