Almost here

Carlos Santana’s new album, “Corazon,” is scheduled to be released on Tuesday.

His 1999 “Supernatural” album is one of my all-time faves and I’ve been looking forward to the new album since I discovered it was in the works last summer.

I hung out at Odds On Records in Las Vegas one night while Steve was laying down some tracks with saxophonist Rick Margitza and noticed these notebooks on the control room counter, left there the previous night when work was being done on the Santana album.

I’ve heard a couple of tracks from the new album and love them. I’ll be downloading it from Amazon.com as soon as it’s available there.

But I can’t help wondering why he didn’t schedule the release for a day earlier – on Cinco de Mayo.