Life (Exuma album)

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Life
Exuma - Life (1973) cover art.jpg
Studio album by
Released1973 (1973)
Studio Bell Sound (New York City) [1]
Length30:18
Label Kama Sutra
Producer
  • Kenny Kerner
  • Richie Wise
Exuma chronology
Reincarnation
(1972)
Life
(1973)
Penny Sausage
(1979)

Life is the sixth studio album by Bahamian folk musician Exuma, released in 1973 through Kama Sutra Records.

Contents

Reception

A reviewer for Billboard wrote of the album: "For sheer drive and power one would be hard pressed to meet Exuma's equal." [2] Lynn Van Matre of the Chicago Tribune called Life Exuma's "most 'commercial' album to date", while also noting, "It still manages to be different—a commodity in precious short supply these days." [3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Exuma, except where noted.

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."If It Feels Good, Do It" (M. Vale)2:29
2."Paint It Black" (Jagger–Richards)2:47
3."Love Is Strange" (Ethel Smith, Mickey Baker, Sylvia Robinson)2:49
4."The Jumping Dance"2:00
5."Iko Iko" (James "Sugar Boy" Crawford)1:55
6."You Can't Always Get What You Want" (Jagger–Richards)4:00
Total length:16:00
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Night Time People"2:51
2."Hayride"2:14
3."Oh! Lovey"2:12
4."Sodom and Gomorrah"2:22
5."Kenyatta Alisha"2:14
6."Viva El Matador" (Dexter)2:25
Total length:14:18

Personnel

Adapted from the album's liner notes. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 From the album's liner notes.
  2. "Billboard's Top Album Picks". Billboard . Vol. 85, no. 34. August 25, 1973. ISSN   0006-2510. Archived from the original on August 14, 2022. Retrieved August 14, 2022.
  3. Matre, Lynn Van (September 9, 1973). "Good 'Uns". Chicago Tribune . Chicago, Illinois. Archived from the original on August 14, 2022. Retrieved August 14, 2022 via Newspapers.com.