Snake is the fourth studio album by Bahamian folk musician Exuma, released in 1972 through Kama Sutra Records.[2][3]

Snake
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 1972
StudioBell Sound (New York City)[1]
Length39:50
LabelKama Sutra
ProducerExuma
Exuma chronology
Do Wah Nanny
(1971)
Snake
(1972)
Reincarnation
(1972)

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [4]

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

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All tracks are written by Exuma

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Obeah, Obeah O"3:50
2."Snake"2:50
3."Don't Let Go"2:33
4."Attica Part 1"7:00
Total length:16:13
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Thirteenth Sunday"3:27
2."Subway Bound for Hell"3:40
3."Happiness and Sunshine"5:54
4."Summertime in New York"3:37
5."Andros Is Atlantis Rising"3:37
6."Exuma's Reincarnation"3:22
Total length:23:37

Personnel

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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

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  1. ^ a b From the album's liner notes.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ a b Chandler, J. "Exuma - Snake". AllMusic. Retrieved August 12, 2022.