Month: May 2017

Summer break is sacred. Always has been, always will be. It arrives like a jailbreak and departs like a death march. The fun resides in between.

With the start of school looming in 1990, Funky Snake Oil had its sights set on squeezing out one last bit of summer fun. The opportunity arose from an unlikely source. Continue reading “August 25, 1990. This Band’s for You.”

For some of you, I suspect an explanation is in order.

If you came here seeking your great-great-grandmother’s long-lost liniment recipe for soothing aching bunions, you are most definitely in the wrong place.

Funky Snake Oil is a band formed by a group of misfit teenagers in 1989 in Alexander City, Alabama that played numerous house parties and assorted gatherings for a brief period spanning its year of formation to the graduation of most of its members from Benjamin Russell High School in 1991. Nope, it wasn’t artistic differences that led to disbandment, just plain old matriculation.

Except for the occasional one-off performance by bits and pieces of the band in the early ‘90s, all was quiet on the Funky Snake Oil front until December 17, 2016. On that date, the original members of the band (accompanied by a few compatriots) reunited after 25 years for a one-day recording session, the fruits of which (rotten or otherwise) will be released soon.

In the meantime, this is the place where our stories will be told. We hope you enjoy them.

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