AMG Review of Anthology

Thom Jurek
All Music Guide

Titled Anthology, this double-disc set is basically a reissue of Santana's 2002 San Mateo Sessions -- a pair of discs that collects all of Santana's pre-Columbia demos. These tapes have been pirated onto CDs all over the place for years, with many different packagings. Sony's Santana [Legacy Edition] picked the very best tracks and issued them as a separate disc bundled together with Santana's self-titled first album in 2004.