Songfacts®:

• "Day Of Celebration" is a hidden track on Santana's Supernatural album, coming in after 12 seconds of silence following the last listed track, "The Calling" (featuring Eric Clapton). In the age of downloads and streaming, the track came out of hiding and was listed on the album. When Supernatural was re-released in 2010, it appeared on the tracklist.
• The album is loaded with guest musicians and aimed at a younger audience. "Day Of Celebration" is a throwback to the classic Santana sound and comprised only of musicians in the band, who on much of the album were pushed aside for the guests. The song was written by Carlos Santana along with the group's keyboard player Chester Thompson and singer Tony Lindsay. The song is a call for freedom and redemption, with some blazing guitar from Carlos and layers of percussion. It ends the album on a high note and is a fitting coda; Supernatural was unimaginably successful, selling over 15 million copies in America and bringing the sounds of Santana to a new generation when just a few years earlier they didn't even have a label deal.