LimeWire Music Blog

If keyboardist/singer Salvador Santana has an angry bone in his body, he hides it well. On his second album, the follow up to 2008’s SSB, the son of legendary guitarist Carlos Santana functions as a walking ecstasy pill, with each song drenched in sunny, upbeat melodies that are the musical equivalent of the weird “Free Hugs” guy you see in any downtown area. “We Got Somethin” combines space-age synth with Kool & the Gang horn blasts, while “Don’t Even Care” sounds like an updated version of War’s “Low Rider.” Throughout Keyboard City, Santana wades in the same surf-friendly waters as Jack Johnson and Ben Harper (though with a little more Sly Stone thrown in than either of them); a place where the sun is always shining, the daiquiris and Coronas are always flowing, and any worries are dismissed with a simple “No worries, bro.”

Jason Newman