Santana的第二张专辑，被许多人认为是他音乐生涯中最强的一张，专辑融合了迷幻摇滚、拉丁音乐、blues、Jazz等各种风格，成为迷幻摇滚的经典之作，来自Fleetwood Mac元老Peter Green的Black Magic woman成为冠军单曲，专辑大卖500万张。本专辑在滚石杂志评出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第205位。San Francisco Bay Area rock scene of the late '60s was one that encouraged radical experimentation and discouraged the type of mindless conformity that's often plagued corporate rock. When one considers just how different Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, and the Grateful Dead sounded, it becomes obvious just how much it was encouraged. In the mid-'90s, an album as eclectic as Abraxas would be considered a marketing exec's worst nightmare. But at the dawn of the 1970s, this unorthodox mix of rock, jazz, salsa, and blues proved quite successful. Whether adding rock elements to salsa king Tito Puente's Oye Como Va, embracing instrumental jazz-rock on Incident at Neshabur and Samba Pa Ti, or tackling moody blues-rock on Fleetwood Mac's Black Magic Woman, the band keeps things unpredictable yet cohesive. Many of the Santana albums that came out in the '70s are worth acquiring, but for novices, Abraxas is an excellent place to start.