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"Soul Sacrifice" is an instrumental composed and recorded by the American rock group Santana. Identified as one of the highlights of the 1969 Woodstock festival and documentary film , [ 1 ] "Soul Sacrifice" features extended guitar passages by Carlos Santana and a percussion section with a solo by drummer Michael Shrieve .
At age 20, Shrieve was the second youngest musician to perform at Woodstock. [citation needed] His drum solo during "Soul Sacrifice" in the Woodstock film has been described as "electrifying", [2] although he considers his solo during the same piece in 1970 at Tanglewood the superior performance. [3]
The album was destined to be a major release, given a boost by the band's performance at the Woodstock Festival earlier that August. The album's first single, " Jingo ", was only a modest performer, spending eight weeks on the chart and reaching #56; [ 3 ] however, " Evil Ways ", the second single taken from the album, was a U.S. Top 10 hit ...
Woodstock is a 1970 American documentary film of the watershed counterculture Woodstock Festival which took place in August 1969 near Bethel, ... "Soul Sacrifice" 23.
The group found little success in the music scene until it was slated to perform at the August 1969 Woodstock Music Festival and began work on its debut album, Santana. Malone is credited as co-writer of " Soul Sacrifice ", which featured on the album and which the band performed at Woodstock.
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson on how sifting through 40 hours of archival footage of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival led to his directorial debut, 'Summer of Soul."
He also wrote for artists like The Fifth Dimension and David Soul. His songs were also recorded by prolific artists like Elvis Presley, Donna Summer, Sonny and Cher, Bon Jovi, and Olivia Newton John.
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival held on a 600-acre (2.4-km 2) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969.Thirty-two acts performed during the sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers.