Music
Doktor Snake (“Doc”) is a legendary swamp voodoo bluesman and cult author. At live shows you’ll catch him jammin’ out country blues and tellin’ spooky tales ’bout conjuration, graveyard rituals, pacts with the Devil, and haunts – along with givin’ sage hoodoo advice to the crowd.
Doc appears with his trademark Fedora hat, shades, and with a Cuban cigar clenched between his teeth. In his John Lee Hooker meets Willie Nelson drawl, he plays old and new blues/country songs on his old battered acoustic guitar (with back smashed out when it was used to hit someone over the head). A Bowie knife is wedged under the strings to raise them for Doktor Snake’s speciality – soulful, haunting slide guitar.
In between tunes, Doc tells intriguing stories about his life as a voodoo doctor – how clients have commissioned him to bring back lost lovers, turn preachers gay, conjure up pet dwarfs, sell their souls to Ole Satan, and win crazy dog cash at casinos.
He also demonstrates how to make mojo hands for love, money, hexing, curse-removal and luck.
The UK’s leading voodoo practitioner, Doktor Snake learnt the arts of voodoo conjuration from the late Earl Marlowe, a Trinidadian singer and hoodoo doctor who Doc played in a band with during the 1980s. Besides music, the two would perform love spells, money spells and luck spells for people in London and other part of the UK, and later the USA.
These experiences are chronicled in Doktor Snake’s Voodoo Spellbook, published by St Martin’s Press. With evocative illustrations by Chris Daunt, this cult classic has been described as “Carlos Castaneda meets deep south hoodoo.”
Doktor Snake lives on Crawlin’ Kingsnake Island and always pays heed to his dreams.
Visit Doc’s swamp voodoo blues website for details of live dates, recordings and bookings.
