Santana III is Santana's white album. Friction within the band caused a precipitous decrease in collaborative songwriting and a massive increase in wasted studio time. The final product lacks the cohesiveness of their previous efforts, but each song is a jewel. And unlike the Beatles' white album, Santana III has a visually stunning jacket. Its instrumental tunes--Baktuka, Jungle Strut and Toussaint L'Overture, which became a staple of all subsequent Santanas' live acts--helped to shift the record-buying public's interest from the primarily riff-based rock-and-roll of the late '60s to the jazz/rock fusion of the early '70s. The record's best vocal track is Everybody's Everything. Even if you don't recognize the title, you've heard it. It still enjoys heavy rotation among some of the nation's more backward classic rock stations. Carlos still regularly performs two of the other tracks: the slinky samba Guajira and No One To Depend On, a song whose message he came to repudiate when he finally turned his back on the fame and drugs which fractured his band during the recording of Santana III and embraced religion. And of course, the entire album is saturated by the best latin rhythm section in popular music.