Since he had joined
Santana
in 1972, keyboard player
Tom Coster
had been
Carlos Santana
's right-hand man, playing, co-writing, co-producing, and generally taking the place of founding member
Greg Rolie
. But
Coster
left the band in the spring of 1978, to be replaced by keyboardist/guitarist
Chris Solberg
and keyboardist
Chris Rhyme
. Despite the change, the band soldiered on, and with
Inner Secrets
, they scored three chart singles: the
disco
-ish
"One Chain (Don't Make No Prison)"
(#59),
"Stormy"
(#32), and a cover of
Buddy Holly
's
"Well All Right"
(#69), done in the
Blind Faith
arrangement. (There seems to be a
Steve Winwood
fixation here. The album also featured a cover of
Traffic
"Dealer."
) The singles kept the album on the charts longer than any
LP since 1971, but it was still a minor disappointment after
Moonflower
, and in retrospect seems like one of the band's more compromised efforts. ~ William Ruhlmann