Exuma is a district of the Bahamas and the stage name of Macfarlane Gregory Anthony Mackey, born 1942 on Cat Island. At 17, in 1959, Mackey moved to NYC to study architecture and played an active role in the '60s Greenwich Village folk scene. This is Exuma's first album, released 1970. His backing band is known as the Junk Band & had a rotating roster between work on The Obeah Man and their last album, Rude Boy, released 1986 by ROIR Records. Exuma toured with everyone from Patti LaBelle to Peter Tosh to Black Flag, and was awarded a British Empire Medal in 1978 for significant contributions to Bahamian culture (though Queen Elizabeth II as the monitor of Bahamian culture's enrichment is problematic at best).
Regardless, the man is obviously a mystic. His music showcases a rich variety of styles and media forms, including folklore, the saw-based rake & scrape, calypso, ballad, and junkanoo. A few posts of his better-known singles TK.
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