Carlos Santana will return this fall with a brand new album featuring some of the biggest names in modern rock today including Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington, Scott Weiland, Gavin Rossdale, Pat Monahan, Rob Thomas, and Scott Stapp.  Titled Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics Of All Time, the new album will drop September 21st and feature covers of some rock classics.

Working from their collective encyclopedic knowledge of rock, Carlos Santana and Sony Music CCO Clive Davis devised a list of guitar-centric titles – and then invited a Who’s Who of guest vocalists to perform on every track.  See the full track listing below:

“Whole Lotta Love” featuring Chris Cornell (Led Zeppelin)
“Sunshine Of Your Love” featuring Rob Thomas (Cream)
“Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’” featuring Scott Weiland (The Rolling Stones)
“Dance the Night Away” featuring Pat Monahan (Van Halen)
“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” featuring india.arie and Yo-Yo Ma (The Beatles)
 “Bang A Gong” featuring Gavin Rossdale (T. Rex)
“Smoke On the Water” featuring Jacoby Shaddix (Deep Purple)
“Photograph” featuring Chris Daughtry (Def Leppard)
“Back In Black” featuring Nas (AC/DC)
“Little Wing” featuring Joe Cocker (Jimi Hendrix)
“Riders On the Storm” featuring Chester Bennington and Ray Manzarek (The Doors)
“I Ain’t Superstitious” featuring Jonny Lang (Howlin’ Wolf, Jeff Beck Group)
“Fortunate Son” featuring Scott Stapp (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

“To create these songs,” said Carlos Santana, “took an incredible amount of trust – from Matt Serletic, and from Howard Benson, and all these incredible singers, all these incredible musicians, they had to trust me, and I trusted Clive, so it’s a chain reaction of love, because that’s the highest form of love that there is on this planet: Trust.”

Guitar Heaven… is the first new studio album by Santana since their trilogy of consecutive blockbuster Arista releases: Supernatural (1999), Shaman (2002), and All That I Am (2005).  All three albums were produced by Carlos Santana and Clive Davis. 

“The cuts are special and the guest stars are special,” said Clive Davis.  “But what is unique and why this album stands for more than just the individual songs or titles, is that they were indeed chosen because they’re guitar classics.  And they celebrate the guitar because of the performance of Carlos Santana.”