Instant classic. We even have a kiddies guitar playing Oye Como Va. You can’t get more classic than that. When your music is so melodic and so recognizable that you can put it on a kiddies toy, you just reached the peak of recognition. And Santana is there for years, still going strong.
For this week, I thought about something epic. Something familiar yet always charming, always strong, always close to one’s heart. The Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen/Oye Como Va medley performed live by Carlos Santana in 1992 is just so epic, there’s so much music there that your feet would want to dance on their own!
I won’t even bother you with facts and notes about Santana or these tunes. Enough to say they go on being amazingly popular since 1970 and, just to illustrate what I was saying earlier, ‘Oye Como Va’ makes for one of the simplest lines in music history and one of the best songs ever written and performed. The simplest things…
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