{"id":5085,"date":"2026-10-13T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/radar\/?p=5085"},"modified":"2026-10-13T13:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T13:21:42","slug":"who-originally-sang-black-magic-woman-before-santana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/radar\/who-originally-sang-black-magic-woman-before-santana\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Originally Sang \u201cBlack Magic Woman\u201d? Before Santana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fleetwood Mac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not the Fleetwood Mac most people imagine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter Green wrote and sang the original \u201cBlack Magic Woman\u201d in 1968, years before Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santana then transformed the song into the version most listeners recognise today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That means one of Santana\u2019s defining recordings actually began with the blues-era version of Fleetwood Mac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Different singer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Different guitarist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Different era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Same song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who wrote \u201cBlack Magic Woman\u201d?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter Green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Green founded Fleetwood Mac with drummer Mick Fleetwood and was one of the most important British blues guitarists of his generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The early Fleetwood Mac sounded almost nothing like the Rumours-era band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forget:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dreams<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Go Your Own Way<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Think:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">electric blues<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">B.B. King influence<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chicago blues<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">British blues clubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBlack Magic Woman\u201d belongs to that version of the band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When did Fleetwood Mac release it?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1968\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was released as a single and became one of the group\u2019s early UK chart successes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter Green sang lead and played guitar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mick Fleetwood played drums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John McVie played bass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three musicians later associated with one of the most commercially successful pop-rock groups in history were making stripped-down blues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fleetwood Mac\u2019s history is slightly ridiculous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who was Peter Green writing about?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Green\u2019s girlfriend Sandra Elsdon has been connected with the song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MusicRadar reports that Green referred to her as \u201cMagic Mamma\u201d and wrote the song during a difficult period in the relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lyrics use supernatural language to describe romantic power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The woman appears to have almost magical influence over the narrator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That fits a long blues tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Love becomes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">spell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">curse<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">temptation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">loss of control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Did Peter Green invent the musical idea completely?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not in isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Green openly drew from blues music he admired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MusicRadar traces parts of the musical lineage through Otis Rush\u2019s \u201cAll Your Love (I Miss Your Loving)\u201d and earlier Chicago blues guitar language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Songs rarely appear from nowhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Green absorbed blues vocabulary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santana absorbed Green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later listeners absorbed Santana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musical history behaves more like a family tree than a straight line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When did Santana record \u201cBlack Magic Woman\u201d?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1970\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santana included the track on Abraxas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carlos Santana\u2019s recording became a much bigger international success and eventually overshadowed Fleetwood Mac\u2019s original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For millions of listeners:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santana song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fleetwood Mac cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why does Santana\u2019s version sound so different?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because Santana didn&#8217;t simply imitate Green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carlos Santana brought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Latin percussion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">organ<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a different guitar tone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">more rhythmic movement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and a much larger sense of atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The result keeps the original composition while changing its musical world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is what the best covers do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They don&#8217;t ask:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How can we reproduce this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They ask:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What can this become?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is \u201cGypsy Queen\u201d?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second half of Santana\u2019s famous recording.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santana combined \u201cBlack Magic Woman\u201d with \u201cGypsy Queen\u201d, a composition by Hungarian guitarist G\u00e1bor Szab\u00f3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That means the recording many people simply call \u201cBlack Magic Woman\u201d is actually a musical hybrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter Green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G\u00e1bor Szab\u00f3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carlos Santana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three guitar worlds inside one classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Did Santana know Fleetwood Mac\u2019s original?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Very much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carlos Santana has spoken admiringly about Peter Green\u2019s Fleetwood Mac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The original band had impressed him deeply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This wasn&#8217;t a case of somebody accidentally discovering an obscure publishing catalogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santana respected the source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That respect is audible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He changes the arrangement without destroying Green\u2019s melancholy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Did Peter Green ever perform it with Santana?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A particularly beautiful moment came around Fleetwood Mac\u2019s 1998 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, when Green appeared with Santana and played the song associated with both of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine writing a blues song in 1968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watching another guitarist turn it into a world-famous classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then decades later standing beside him to play it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Music history occasionally resolves itself nicely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why do people assume Santana wrote it?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because Santana\u2019s version became definitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This happens constantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whitney Houston \u2013 I Will Always Love You.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soft Cell \u2013 Tainted Love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Natalie Imbruglia \u2013 Torn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amy Winehouse \u2013 Valerie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A cover becomes culturally larger than the source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eventually people stop hearing it as a cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Radar\u2019s existing famous-cover hub is therefore a natural internal link from this page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What genre is the original?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">British blues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blues rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santana\u2019s version is generally described as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Latin rock<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">blues rock<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">psychedelic rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Same composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Different genre emphasis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is exactly why listening to both versions is worthwhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Songs to hear after \u201cBlack Magic Woman\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fleetwood Mac \u2013 Albatross<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fleetwood Mac \u2013 The Green Manalishi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santana \u2013 Oye Como Va<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santana \u2013 Samba Pa Ti<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Otis Rush \u2013 All Your Love (I Miss Loving)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G\u00e1bor Szab\u00f3 \u2013 Gypsy Queen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">B.B. King \u2013 The Thrill Is Gone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your knowledge of Fleetwood Mac begins with Stevie Nicks, spend some time with Peter Green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It may feel like discovering another band sharing the same name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because, essentially, you are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who originally sang \u201cBlack Magic Woman\u201d?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter Green with Fleetwood Mac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1968\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santana made it internationally famous two years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the best way to understand the song is not to choose between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen to both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Green sounds haunted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santana sounds hypnotic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Same magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Different spell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fleetwood Mac. 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