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.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
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]

Exuma (The Obeah Man) – lead vocals, choral vocals, "mouth mason", "throat thompson", guitar, cowbell, bugle, goat skin drums, trumpet, whistle
Ouimungie Pappa Legra (Michael O'Neil) – C melody saxophone, tenor saxophone, conga drums, choral vocals, whistle, claves
Kester Smith – set drums
Kurt Nurse – steel pan, timbales
Kenny Aaronson – electric bass
Duke Clemons – upright bass (on "You Can't Always Get What You Want")
Patti Bown – piano, celesta
Jeff Smith – saxophone (on "Viva El Matador")
Tyrone Demmons – trumpet (on "Viva El Matador")
Bryan Maday – drums (on "If It Feels Good, Do It" and "Paint It Black")
Steve Love – electric guitar, sitar (on "If It Feels Good, Do It" and "Paint It Black")
Kenny Bichel – piano (on "If It Feels Good, Do It" and "Paint It Black")
Richie Wise – tambourine (on "If It Feels Good, Do It")
Priscilla Rollins – choral vocals (on "If It Feels Good, Do It")

References

^ ^a ^b From the album's liner notes.
^ "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.
^ 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.

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Studio albums	Exuma Exuma II Do Wah Nanny Snake Reincarnation Life Penny Sausage Street Music Universal Rude Boy
Record labels	Mercury Records Buddah Records Kama Sutra Records ROIR Records