Santana - June 2016 Relix Issue

The June 2016 Relix issue features our Santana cover story, our 16th Annual Relix Festival Guide: Set II and much more! After reaching new creative and commercial heights with Santana III, Carlos Santana opted to pursue a new direction with the group’s fourth album, Caravanserai. The band’s roster soon dispersed, as longtime adviser Bill Graham opined, “Caravanserai? More like career suicide.” More than 40 years later, guitarist Neal Schon, who left Santana to form Journey, approached Santana about a new collaborative project. The result, as Editor-in-Chief Dean Budnick discovers, was a leap back in time to an alternate reality, and the classic lineup picked things up where they left off in 1971 with the new, joyful, expansive record Santana IV.

This issue also contains additional articles and interviews with Tom Petty, Brian Wilson, Bill Walton, Al Jardine, Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, Prince, Mudcrutch, Sean Lennon, Les Claypool, Peter Wolf, Blondie Chaplin, Nathaniel Rateliff, Warren Haynes, Marco Benevento, The Jayhawks, William Bell, Kamasi Washington, GRiZ, Chicano Batman, Band of Horses, Ben Bridwell, Lucius, Keith McPhee, Dave Harrington, The James Hunter Six and more!