Snake (album) explained
Snake is the fourth studio album by Bahamian folk musician Exuma, released in 1972 through Kama Sutra Records.[1] [2]
Reception
Upon its release, Lynn Van Matre of the Chicago Tribune called the album "Wholly weird and mostly wonderful." 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."
Personnel
Adapted from the album's liner notes.[3]
- 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")
Notes and References
- News: Matre. Lynn Van. Good 'Uns. Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. March 19, 1972. Newspapers.com. August 12, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220813001938/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107484429/chicago-tribune/. August 13, 2022. live.
- Book: Paton. Diana. Forde. Maarit. Diana Paton. 2012. Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing. Duke University Press. 77. 978-0822351337.
- From the album's liner notes.
