Welcome - Original 1973 US Columbia label 9-track LP

1972 US Columbia 10-track vinyl LP -

Vinyl has the custom printed white and gold printed company labels and PC prefix - held in a plain white slightly glossy inner sleeve and ultimately in an embossed gatefold picture cover - complete with OBI like flap folded along top cover - which is only found with initial pressing of the cover.

Condition: VG++ (Vinyls and Labels)/VG++ (Cover):
Vinyl is superlustrous and with barely any signs of handling - a touch of sleeve wear is all - mint labels.
Cver has only very faint and negligible signs of handling or storage - plain near mint - insert is perfect.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. Going Home (spiritual adapted from Antonín Dvoøák's "New World Symphony") - 4:11
2. Love, Devotion & Surrender (Richard Kermode, Carlos Santana) - 3:38
3. Samba de Sausalito (José Areas) - 3:11
4. When I Look into Your Eyes (Tom Coster, Michael Shrieve) - 5:52
5. Yours Is the Light (Kermode, Shrieve) - 5:47

Side 2:
1. Mother Africa (Herbie Mann) - 5:55
2. Light of Life (Coster, Kermode, Santana) - 3:52
3. Flame - Sky (John McLaughlin, Doug Rauch, Santana) - 11:33
4. Welcome (John Coltrane) - 6:35

Credits:

Santana:
Carlos Santana - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, kalimba, percussion, vocals
Tom Coster - Yamaha organ, Hammond organ, electric piano, acoustic piano, organ, marimba, percussion, vocals
Richard Kermode - Hammond organ, mellotron, electric piano, acoustic piano, marimba, shekere, percussion
Douglas Rauch - bass guitar
Michael Shrieve - drums
José "Chepito" Areas - percussion, conga, timbales
Armando Peraza - percussion, conga, bongos, cabasa, vocals

Additional musicians:
Leon Thomas - lead vocals (Love, Devotion & Surrender, When I Look into Your Eyes, Light of Life), whistling (Yours Is the Light)
Wendy Haas - vocals (Love, Devotion & Surrender, When I Look into Your Eyes)
Flora Purim - lead vocals (Yours Is the Light)
John McLaughlin - guitar (Flame - Sky)
Joe Farrell - solo flute (When I Look into Your Eyes)
Bob Yance - flute (When I Look into Your Eyes, Yours Is the Light)
Mel Martin - flute (When I Look into Your Eyes, Yours Is the Light)
Douglas Rodriguez - rhythm guitar (When I Look into Your Eyes)
Tony Smith - drums (Samba de Sausalito)
Jules Broussard - soprano saxophone (Mother Africa)

Technical Credits:
Tom Coster, Carlos Santana, Maitreya Michael Shrieve - production
Glen Kolotkin - engineer
Greg Adams - strings arrangements (Light of Life)
Alice Coltrane, The New Santana Band - Arrangements (Going Home)
Tom Coster - Arrangements (Mother Africa)

Artwork:
Ethan Russell, Masakazu Sakomizu -Photography