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Dr. Snake is a legendary punk blues artist and hoodoo man who plays the devil’s music. At live shows you’ll find him riffing out classic and self-penned swamp blues tunes (often made up on the spot), along with telling true tales of high voodoo weirdness and dispensing sage hoodoo advice to the crowd.

Doc appears in his trademark wide-brimmed hat, jet black shades, and has a Cuban cigar clenched between his teeth. He plays deep blues riffs on his battered old acoustic guitar plugged through a classic tube combo. A hunting knife is wedged under the strings to raise them for Dr. Snake’s specialty – soulful, haunting slide guitar.

In between tunes, Doc makes up hoodoo conjure charms for members of the audience who want assistance in matters of love, money, jinxes, hexing, and gambling luck.

Dr. Snake was taught the dark arts of voodoo by the late Earl Marlowe, a Trinidadian singer and hoodoo man whom Snake played guitar for in a band during the 1980s. Besides music, the two would cast voodoo spells, and perform exorcisms and séances, for clients in London and other parts of the UK, and later the USA.

These experiences are chronicled in Dr. Snake’s Voodoo Spellbook, published by St Martin’s Press. With evocative illustrations by Chris Daunt, this cult classic has been described as “kick ass voodoo on crack.”

Doc dubs himself as the “Devil’s son-in-law” and “high sheriff of Hell” in honor of Peetie Wheatstraw, a bluesman who portrayed himself as a gangsta bluesman with demonic overtones.

Dr. Snake lives on Crawlin’ Kingsnake Island and always pays heed to his dreams.

Did You Know

  • Dr. Snake also plays guitar for other musicians and bands in the rock, blues, country and Americana genres.
  • Every year on Halloween night Doc entertains seven of his ancestors, whose ghosts dine and drink dark rum with him.
  • Dr. Snake has been covered in many magazines and newspapers around the world. He’s also appeared on TV and talk radio across Europe and the US, and is the driving force behind the internet phenomenon that is DoktorSnake.com.
  • Doc’s other books – written as Jimmy Lee Shreeve and Dr Hash – include How To Be Famous (Orion), Mary Jane’s Hash Brownies, Hot Pot, And Other Marijuana Munchies (Cico), Blood Rites (Arrow), Cannibals (John Blake) and Human Sacrifice (Barricade).