Put Your Lights On
Santana feat. Everlast, 1999. Solo by Carlos Santana.
A dark, acoustic-based song where Santana's closing solo carries the mood.
Put Your Lights On, with Everlast, is one of the darkest songs on Supernatural, built on a brooding acoustic groove and a half-spoken, half-sung vocal. Carlos Santana mostly stays in the background until the closing section, where his solo takes over and carries the mood out. His tone there is warm with a little grit, and he plays slowly, leaning on long bends and sustain rather than flurries of notes. The restraint matters, because the song's tension comes from waiting, and the guitar finally gives it somewhere to go. Listen for how he enters quietly, repeats a short, aching phrase, and then lets it grow more insistent as the track fades.
Put Your Lights On by Santana feat. Everlast is featured in our Latin Rock (#23) list. The solo is played by Carlos Santana and the song was released in 1999.
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Who played the guitar solo on Put Your Lights On?
Carlos Santana played the solo on Santana feat. Everlast's Put Your Lights On (1999).