When legendary guitarist Carlos Santana took the stage at Woodstock back in 1969 he was just 22 years old. He was an unknown and he was also hallucinating. Fifty years later, the wildly successful ...

Rock stars often live wild lives while they make chart-topping music. And in the case of classic rock icon Carlos Santana, that’s certainly the case. Younger music fans might remember Santana from the ...

Santana and his band started playing around San Francisco in the late ’60s, along with groups like Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. The band ended up getting signed to Columbia Records, and ...

It was 50 years ago today that the famous Woodstock Music and Art Fair started, with Richie Havens leading the performers as the opening act. It's believed that half a million people flooded the site, ...

The guitar roared like a chainsaw. The drummer and three percussionists pounded away on their drums as though riding a jackhammer beneath a hot sun. They were all pinned beneath lights and 16,000 ...

Boiceville-based blues guitarist Murali Coryell, whose parents lived in Carlos Santana’s apartment when Coryell was an infant in 1970, now finds himself on the same daylong bill as the legendary ...

After efforts to stage a massive event celebrating Woodstock’s 50th anniversary failed to materialize, the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in New York’s Catskills region became the only game in town.

Carlos Santana has played some festivals. From BottleRock Music Festival in Napa Valley, to the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Dallas, to the Starlite Festival in Spain, to the granddaddy of them all — ...

On this FUV Throwback Thursday 1969, Darren DeVivo writes about Santana, one of many albums that made a significant impact that year — and it still resonates with listeners 50 years later. Santana’s ...

Woodstock 50 is a “sinking ship," and a dozen artists have abandoned the festival since it moved out of Upstate New York. Country Joe McDonald (of Country Joe and the Fish) and John Sebastian (of The ...

The Woodstock 50 festival has lost one of its signature musical acts: Carlos Santana. That's according to Santana spokesman Michael Jensen, who said Santana will not perform at Woodstock 50, which ...