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# Music: Santana leads a 12 bar blues jam
- URL: https://www.sweatyspice.com/music-santana-leads-a-12-bar-blues-jam/
- Published: 2025-08-31T12:37:32.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-31T12:37:32.000Z
- Description: A long, slow jam reminds me of days long gone. No egos, just killer grooves.
- Author: Geoff Anderson
- Tags: Geoff's Musical Musings

I was writing a post on the *possible* popping of the AI bubble, and I clicked on some music for the background whilst writing. 

This was titled simply "Santana - 12 bar blues jam"

Recorded in 1989, it features players from the band Los Lobos, and it is a ripping trading of licks for nearly ten and a half minutes. 

When I used to play out, we would often jam some tunes we all could agree on, but as the evening progressed, we would start a long blues jam, and it was almost always in a minor key (usually Emin, or Amin) and the 12 bar shuffle. We could play for hours to that groove.

This remined me of those evenings. Greasy pizza, cheap beer, and good times.

Carlos and the gang park their egos, and let it all hang out.