Monday, March 19, 2018

Jimmy Cliff's The Harder They Come



This is the record that is said to have introduced reggae music to America. It's a soundtrack to a film released in 1973 about a reggae star who is forced to petty crime to survive. 

It's got a killer soundtrack! Check it out:

Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers to Cross
The Slickers - Johnny Too Bad
Desmond Dekker - Shanty Town 
The Maytals - Pressure Drop 
The Melodians - Rivers of Babylon
and more stuff from Jimmy Cliff. 

Happy to have this in my collection.

Rolling Stone magazine ranked this back in 2003 at the #119th greatest album of all time.

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