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1972 album by Exuma
Snake Bahamian folk musician Exuma , released in 1972 through Kama Sutra Records .[ 2] [ 3]
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic [ 4]
Upon its release, Lynn Van Matre of the Chicago Tribune [ 2] 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]
All tracks are written by Exuma
Side one Title 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 Title 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
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")
^ a b From the album's liner notes.
^ a b Matre, Lynn Van (March 19, 1972). "Good 'Uns" . Chicago Tribune 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 .
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