Originally Posted by
Miciah
I can totally understand why people associate this with summertime, though it was released in the fall.
I still vividly remember the first time I heard it. When this came out in 1972, I was 16 and staying at a farmhouse in the country. The FM station I was listening to back then announced that it would play "the new Santana album" all the way through at midnight. My portable radio was a large multi-band box monstrosity of a thing, finished in fake alligator hide. The audio jack in the radio was a single channel ear phone jack. When you plugged in the ear phone, it would cut off the sound to the radio's speaker. However, I had discovered that if I didn't push the jack all the way into the hole, the speaker wouldn't cut out, but you would still get sound through the ear phone. Voilą - stereo! So at midnight I was laying in bed in the dark with the radio speaker against one ear and the ear phone jack in the other.
Particularly in the musical context of the previous three albums (which I also love), Caravanserai blew me away.
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