Alice Coltrane and Santana are Going Home

Whenever I listen to Alice Coltrane, I cry, a-lot. In her work, Going Home, I couldn’t help but feel her musical power strike me in my deepest heart and resound in my chest. This is what Santana must’ve felt when he so delicately did a cover of this same song on his guitar, years later. Though the melodies and titles are replicated, what Going Home means to the both of them is radically different, yet not so radical that they do not recognize each other. It just feels different. The question I am left with is: do they ever arrive?

 by Paige E. Tobin