okaycomputer Member since Dec 02nd 2002 8090 posts
Thu Jul-19-12 06:12 AM
"so Jimmy Cliff has a new album out and it's pretty damn good"
'Rebirth' bucks the Johnny Cash/Gil Scott Heron/Bobby Womack trend of updating an old great by giving him a new sound and instead sounds like a lost album from the late 60's that someone managed to dig up in a vault in Jamaica.
Jimmy hasn't lost a step...his voice sounds great here and he sounds locked in to these tracks.
The real story here is Rancid's Tim Armstrong...that's right, I said Rancid. He handles production for the album and he's created a thing a beauty. There's no wonder where Jimmy got his inspiration, he must have flashed back to his heyday when he heard these tracks.