1972 album by Exuma
Snake is the fourth studio album by Bahamian folk musician Exuma, released in 1972 through Kama Sutra Records.[2][3]
Reception
Upon its release, Lynn Van Matre of the Chicago Tribune called the album "Wholly weird and mostly wonderful."[2] In a retrospective review, J. Chandler of AllMusic commended the album's cover artwork but wrote that the album's music content "is pretty indistinguishable from the rest of the low-budget drugged out hippie Hare Krishna rock-jazz chant music being made at the time."[4]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Exuma
Personnel
Adapted from the album's liner notes.[1]
- Exuma – lead vocals, guitar, background vocals, cowbells, calling bells, triangle
- Yogi Achmed Benn Mansel – background vocals
- Sally O'Brien – background vocals
- Tonice Gwathney – background vocals
- Barbara Simon "Omolaye" – background vocals
- Michael O'Neil – background vocals, congas, saxophone
- Michael B. Olatunji – talking drum, African congas, African shaker
- Michael Laneve – timbales
- John Russo – electric bass, violin, lead guitar (on "Don't Let Go")
- George J. Clemmons "Duke" – upright bass
- Jeffory Miller – set drums
- Stanley Wiley – piano
- Akinjorin Omolade "Juice" – lead saxophone, African drums
- Jerry Gongales – trumpet
- Carl Jennings – trumpet
- Cuchlow Eliebank – steel pan
- Dave Libert – piano (on "Don't Let Go", "Happiness", and "Sunshine")
References
- ^ a b From the album's liner notes.
- ^ a b Matre, Lynn Van (March 19, 1972). "Good 'Uns". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. Archived from the original on August 13, 2022. Retrieved August 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Paton, Diana; Forde, Maarit, eds. (2012). Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing. Duke University Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-0822351337.
- ^ a b Chandler, J. "Exuma - Snake". AllMusic. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
