Texas International Pop Festival, Dallas International Motor Speedway, Lewisville, TX, 8-31-1969, Part 3: Santana

The third album from the second day of the 1969 Texas International Pop Festival is a set by Santana.

A key thing to keep in mind here is that at the time of this concert, almost nobody in the audience would have known the music of Santana. Their first album, "Santana," was released on August 22, 1969, only about ten days prior to this performance. The first single from it, "Jingo," didn't make much of an impact on the charts. They also performed at the Woodstock festival earlier in August, and that was their big break that put them on the road to stardom. But most of the impact of that would come later, for instance after the Woodstock album and concert came out. Later in 1969, the single "Evil Ways" would be released from their first album and go on to be a big hit, resulting in them getting on prominent TV shows, like "The Ed Sullivan Show." But all that was still in the future. Maybe some people at this festival had also been at the Woodstock festival and spread some word-of-mouth news about them, but that was probably it.

The set list was very similar to their Woodstock set list, except even shorter. Their Woodstock set was 48 minutes long, and this one is only 33. I don't know if that's because this one is incomplete, or if it was just a rather short set. Since they weren't well known yet, it's possible this is the whole thing.

This album is 33 minutes long. 

01 Evil Ways (Santana)
02 talk (Santana)
03 You Just Don't Care (Santana)
04 talk (Santana)
05 Shades of Time [Instrumental] (Santana)
06 Jingo (Santana)
07 talk (Santana)
08 Treat (Santana)
09 talk (Santana)
10 Soul Sacrifice [Instrumental] (Santana)

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The cover photo of Carlos Santana is from this exact concert. It was the only photo of the band I could find from this concert, and I had to do a lot of work on it to make it look good. It was in black and white, so I converted it to color using Kolorize, plus I did some work in Photoshop, like making the colors of the flags in the background match other pictures from the festival. Santana's face was blurry, so I had to do some extra work to make that look better, using Krea AI and Photoshop.