“I was told never to come to Chicago, Texas or Memphis unless you play some blues,” joked Carlos Santana on stage Friday night at Ravinia Festival, about 12 miles north of Chicago in Highland Park, Illinois. “So here’s some blues,” asserted the guitar god, going back to 1970’s Abraxas album, his second, while setting up “Hope You’re Feeling Better” midway through the performance.
Over the course of two sold out evenings in Chicago’s northern suburbs, part of Santana’s “1001 Rainbows” tour — an outing which runs into early August ahead of September and November residency dates in Las Vegas — the guitarist and his eight piece backing band shook things up, trotting out drastically reworked sets each night. Friday, on night one, Santana performed for two hours despite humidity and temperatures soaring near 90 degrees.
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