Do Wah Nanny 1971 Album

Exuma

Another stupefying and/or intoxicating concoction of the momentous and the trivial, all filtered through McKay’s Caribbean muse. The title track, “Roweena”, and “She Looks so Fine” fit the latter category to a tee, while “Silver City”, “The Bowery”, and especially the prophetic “22nd Century” are reminders of the powerful, spiritual voice and sounds he commanded. “22nd Century” has to be singled out here – unlike anything from the previous album, the living dead creatures and zombies are brought back ten-fold – presumably as a final warning to the misguided souls who spent their time fouling up everyone else’s lives for their own personal gains. Not to be missed. Apparently, this was the last real substantial album from Exuma before things went a bit south for him on many fronts, but still, there were many releases throughout the 70’s and 80’s, and even right up until his rather premature death in 1997. I know this review is pretty short, but I highly recommend fans of any kind of outsider music check out these albums and anything else Exuma released.