''Snake'' is the fourth studio album by Bahamian folk musician

Exuma Exuma is a district of the Bahamas, district of The Bahamas, consisting of over 365 islands and Cay, cays. The largest of the islands is Great Exuma, which is 37 mi (60 km) in length and joined to another island, Little Exuma, by a small bridge ...

, released in 1972 through

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Reception

Upon its release, Lynn Van Matre of the ''

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'' called the album "Wholly weird and mostly wonderful." In a retrospective review, J. Chandler of

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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 Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, h ...

chant music being made at the time."

Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from the album's liner notes.From the album's liner notes. * Exuma – lead vocals, guitar, background vocals,

cowbell A cowbell (or cow bell) is a bell (instrument), bell worn around the neck of free-roaming livestock so herders can keep track of an animal via the sound of the bell when the animal is grazing out of view in hilly landscapes or vast plains. ...

s, calling bells,

triangle A triangle is a polygon with three corners and three sides, one of the basic shapes in geometry. The corners, also called ''vertices'', are zero-dimensional points while the sides connecting them, also called ''edges'', are one-dimension ...

* 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,

conga The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest ...

s, saxophone * Michael B. Olatunji –

talking drum The talking drum is an hourglass-shaped drum from West Africa, which can be used as a form of speech surrogacy by regulating its pitch and rhythm to mimic the tone and prosody of human speech. It has two drumheads connected by leather t ...

, African congas, African shaker * Michael Laneve –

timbales Timbales () or pailas are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing. They are shallower than single-headed tom-toms and usually tuned much higher, especially for their size.Orovio, Helio 1981. ''Diccionario de la música cubana: biográfic ...

* John Russo – electric bass, violin, lead guitar (on "Don't Let Go") * George J. Clemmons "Duke" –

upright bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...

* Jeffory Miller – set drums * Stanley Wiley – piano * Akinjorin Omolade "Juice" – lead saxophone, African drums * Jerry Gongales – trumpet * Carl Jennings – trumpet * Cuchlow Eliebank –

steel pan The steelpan (also known as a pan or steel drum) is a musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago from Afro-Trinidadians. Steelpan musicians are called pannists. In 1992, the steelpan was declared Trinidad and Tobago’s national in ...

* Dave Libert – piano (on "Don't Let Go", "Happiness", and "Sunshine")

References

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