The Vinyl Countdown # 1769

Santana, Lotus (1973)

Probably one of the albums that I’ve listened to the most in my life. In fact, easily. It was my lawn-mowing music when I was 13, 14, 15. Weird, maybe, but it worked. I was hooked on Santana when I was about 12. My folks were buying CDs – excited by the potential of the new medium; they were revisiting their old record collection a…