10 Classic Rock Songs About Femmes Fatales

10. Black Magic Woman, (Fleetwod Mac 1969/Santana, 1970)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPo9Gd2z6rI The hypnotic intro to Santana€™s version of this song, with its exotic congas, mysterious organ and Carlos Santana€™s unique licks, constitutes the edge over the Fleetwood Mac original. Fleetwood Mac€™s recording is by all means a great composition, but it is with Santana€™s version that one is aurally transported into a dark, marshy and torrid land of Voodoo and seduction. €œI got a black magic woman! Got me so blind I can€™t see... But she€™s a black magic woman and she€™s tryin€™ to make a devil outa me...€
 
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