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: "Smooth" (feat. Rob Thomas), "Maria Maria" (feat. The Product G&B), and "The Game of Love" (feat. Michelle Branch).

Carlos Santana’s guitar tone is a cathedral of harmonics. His 1968 Gibson Les Paul with a DiMarzio pickup, funneled through a Fender Twin Reverb, produces overtones that lower-quality MP3s (128kbps or below) crush into digital mud.