EXUMA VINYL LP ORIGINAL 1970 ORIG The Obeah Man gatefold cover nice LYRIC SHEET
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Exuma - Exuma LP [Gatefold textured cover] (Mercury Records SR 61265)

Nice original copy of Exuma's debut with textured gatefold cover and original lyric sheet (which is quite rare).

So you know Dr. John's "Gris-Gris" but you know Dr. John is Mac Rebennack and Mac Rebennack played with Cher and Stephen Stills, Ringo Starr and Rickie Lee Jones; he appeared on "Sesame Street" and on last week's "Top Chef" episode. Still there's no denying "Gris-Gris" is a kinda creepy album, but… You want scary? Try Exuma, try The Obeah Man…the cover is scary, the music is creepy, the whole package is kinda haunting, ritualistic and disturbed. This was 1970 and Exuma was there to mess you up. LP is MINT- to VG+ (light sleeve marks)/Cover is VG to VG+ (textured with VERY minimal wear, 2 seam split areas at top of gatefold holding the LP)/Textured lyric sleeve is MINT- to VG+.


Tracks are
1. Exuma, The Obeah Man 6:16
2. Dambala 5:34
3. Mama Loi, Papa Loi 4:32

1. Junkanoo 3:24
2. Seance In The Sixth Fret 7:14
3. You Don't Know What's Going On 3:27
4. The Vision 8:14

Lead Vocals, Guitar, Ankle Bells, Junk Bells, Elephant Bells, Sacred Foot Drum – Exuma aka Exhuma

Vocals, Bells, Foot Drums, Sacred Sand – Daddy Ya Ya
Vocals:
Frankie Gearing (The Glories, The Laddins, Quiet Elegance, The Steinways)
Geraldine McBride
Mildred Vaney (Cut Glass, The Glories, Hott City, P'zzazz, Quiet Elegance)
Princess Diana
Sally O'Brien
Vocals, Triangle, Cabeasa, Whistle, Bells – Spy Boy Thielheim (Peppy, The Spy Boy)
Congas – Lord Wellington
Written-By – Exuma


From Perfect Sound Forever:
Who Was Exuma?
He was a spirit who came from a planet, now extinct, brought to us on a lightning bolt, who had communed with Charon, the ferryman of the River Styx and Vodun priests. When he informed the world of his travels and even warned of Armageddon, he left the Earth, perhaps tiring of the corporeal and moving to the ethereal.

He was born McFarlane Anthony McKay on Cat Island in the Bahamas in the early 1940's. He then relocated to New York, to study architecture at the age of 17. He ran out of money for his studies and in 1962, participated in folk music hootenannies. Gaining confidence, he started a group called Tony McKay and the Islanders. He also was in a show called A Little of This 'n' That in 1965, along with Richie Havens.

He was a marketing nightmare. Who knew how to peg him? Finding his records has never been an easy task. Often, through dint of color, he was placed in the Soul or R&B bin, even though his music, while soulful, does not belong in either. When his first album was released in 1970, there were sections for music of other countries, however, since he lived in New York and recorded for Mercury, it may have looked out of place there. His music was not Ska or Reggae. He was a contemporary of Bob Dylan's and Peter Paul and Mary, even playing the Café Wha? and the Bitter End in Greenwich Village, but his music wasn't quite from the same branch of Folk singing as Dylan, Woody Guthrie or Ramblin' Jack Elliott. His albums couldn't be placed in Rock; besides, who would get it if it was put there?

All of the above answers are, in varying degrees, "correct."

As the years passed, the '60's saw many streams of music presenting themselves, such as the now dubbed "garage" music and psychedelia. Folk music in its acoustic form had waned in popularity and had given way to Folk-Rock. Blues was enjoying a resurgence; in other words, by the close of the sixties, the popular musical palette had grown considerably varied.

Enter Dr. John, the Night Tripper. Session man Mac Rebennack invented the Dr. John persona for his first album, Gris-Gris which was a fascinating blend of Voodoo, Rhythm and Blues and psychedelia and garnered much critical and popular attention on 1968.

One person who became most interested in Psychedelia was a gentleman named Bob Wyld, who along with Art Polhemus was managing the Blues Magoos. The Blues Magoos released several albums and had a hit single, "We Ain't Got Nothing Yet." Wyld located Exuma and convinced Mercury Records to sign him, in hopes of creating something in the Dr. John vein. Wyld even participated in the project under the pseudonym "Daddy Ya-Ya."

It is difficult to describe the music of Exuma. Many times, there is not much in the way of instrumentation; most of the songs are anchored around his singing and acoustic guitar playing. It is undeniably African-influenced, with much exotic percussion, but it is also grounded in Voodoo beliefs found in the West Indies. His guitar playing is solid, but not flashy. He once said in an interview, "I only know a few chords, but I can stretch them out!" His greatest instrument was his voice. It was a thing of ragged beauty. Neither too high nor low, it compelled and beckoned, sounding as if he had experienced many things in many planes.

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