This week in the Classic Rock Challenge I'm going off the beaten path of rock & roll to bring you one of my all time favorite albums. Reggae music has been interwoven into R&R by many artists. Some of the more popular are The Police & The Rolling Stones. You can't talk about Reggae without bringing up
Jimmy Cliff(Click for a brief Bio). I had the opportunity to see Jimmy live back in 1985. It wasn't one of your standard concerts with a flashy light show & blaring guitars, but it was one of my top 5 concerts & I've seen a lot of concerts! He can sing like an angel & in a small venue, like the Madison civic center was at the time, it was truely amazing. Even if your not a big fan of Reggae, you can still appreciate the ballads of Jimmy Cliff. Once you hear songs such as "Many Rivers to Cross", "You Can Get it if You Really Want", & "Sitting Limbo"(My personal favorite), you can't help but become a fan. These are
those songs that stick in your head for the rest of the day after hearing them.
So, here it is. Jimmy Cliff's "Ultimate Collection"
Track Listing
1. Wonderful World, Beautiful People
2. Come Into My Life
3. Vietnam
4. Wild World
5. Hard Road to Travel
6. You Can Get It If You Really Want It
7. Bongo Man
8. The Harder They Come
9. Many Rivers to Cross
10. Sitting in Limbo
11. Struggling Man
12. If I Follow My Mind
13. The News
14. Sooner or Later
15. Give the People What The Want
16. Shelter of Your Love
17. Majority Rules
18. I Can See Clearly Now
19. Rise Up