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Spirits Dancing in the Flesh

Spirits Dancing in the Flesh
Studio album by Santana
Released	June 1990
Studio	The Plant Studios, Sausalito, California
Genre	Hard rock
Length	48:22
Label	Columbia
Producer	Carlos Santana, Vernon Reid, Chester Thompson, Jim Gaines
Santana chronology
Viva Santana! (1988) Spirits Dancing in the Flesh (1990) Milagro (1992)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	B[2]
Rolling Stone	[3]
Select	3/5[4]

Spirits Dancing in the Flesh is the sixteenth studio album by Santana. It reached eighty-five in the Billboard 200.^[5]

1. "Let There Be Light/Spirits Dancing in the Flesh" (Carlos Santana, Chester D. Thompson) – 7:20
2. "Gypsy Woman" (Curtis Mayfield) – 4:29
3. "It's a Jungle Out There" (Santana) – 4:32
4. "Soweto (Africa Libre)" (Santana, Thompson, Alphonso Johnson) – 5:06
5. "Choose" (Santana, Thompson, Alex Ligertwood) – 4:14
6. "Peace on Earth...Mother Earth...Third Stone from the Sun" (John Coltrane, Santana, Jimi Hendrix) – 4:26
7. "Full Moon" (Paolo Rustichelli) – 4:31
8. "Who's That Lady" (Rudolph Isley, Ronald Isley, O'Kelly Isley, Jr., Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley, Chris Jasper) – 4:15
9. "Jin-go-lo-ba" (Babatunde Olatunji) – 4:46
10. "Goodness and Mercy" (Santana, Thompson) – 4:30

Band

• Carlos Santana – guitar, vocals, percussion
• Alex Ligertwood – vocals, rhythm guitar
• Benny Rietveld – bass guitar
• Chester D. Thompson – keyboards, Hammond B3, horns, vocals
• Armando Peraza – bongos, congas, percussion
• Walfredo Reyes – drums, timbales, percussion

Guest musicians

• Vernon Reid – guitar
• Alphonso Johnson – bass
• Keith Jones – bass
• Paolo Rustichelli – keyboards, acoustic piano
• Wayne Shorter – soprano sax, tenor sax
• Bobby Womack – lead vocals
• Tramaine Hawkins – lead vocals
• Oren Waters – background vocals
• Kevin Dorsey – background vocals
• Jim Gilstrap – background vocals
• Rashan Hylton – background vocals
• Phillip Ingram – background vocals
• Hugh "Sweetfoot" Maynard – background vocals
• Stephen King – vocals
• Orestes Vilató – timbales, vocals
• Raul Rekow – congas, vocals
• Francisco Aguabella – congas

Additional musicians

• Devon Bernardoni – keyboards
• Charisse Dancy – choir
• Sandra Hunter – choir
• Marjo Keller – choir
• Lynice Pinkard – choir
• Lovetta Brown – choir
• De Anna Brown – choir
• Kevin Swan Butler – choir
• Darryl Williams – choir
• Edwin M. Harper, Jr. – choir direction

Production

• Sergio Albonico – executive producer
• Chris Becker – engineering assistance
• Devon Bernardoni – engineering, mixing
• Paul Ericksen – engineering, mixing
• Arne Frager – mixing
• Lori Fumar – engineering assistance
• Jim Gaines – engineering, mixing, production
• Bernie Kirsh – engineering
• David Leonard – mixing
• Stephen Marcussen – mastering
• Diego Uchitel – photography
• Bob Venosa – design
• Peter Wolf – arranging, production