Jimmy Cliff - Wolf Lake Memorial Park Pavilion, Hammond, IN, 7-16-2014
This comes from a soundboard, and the sound quality is excellent. However, there was one problem with the recording: it captured what was heard on stage great, but there was almost no sound of the audience. So I ran every song through the MVSEP program, splitting the crowd noise from everything else. Then I greatly (and I do mean greatly) boosted the crowd noise at the ends of songs and other appropriate places, like during singalongs. So this version sounds even better than the one that first appeared just yesterday.
Cliff put out a lot of classic reggae music in the late 1960s and early to mid 1970s. But then he put out mere okay albums for a long time. However, in 2012, he had an excellent comeback album appropriately titled "Rebirth." It won a Grammy for the best reggae album of the year, and Rolling Stone Magazine named it one of the best 50 albums of 2012. Even though this concert took place well over a year after the release of that album, he was still touring to support it. Four songs here come from that album: "Rebel Rebel," "World Upside Down," "One More," and "Children's Bread."
This is a fairly long concert, which gave Cliff time to play most of his best known songs. He also managed to weave in a kind of personal musical history, which included him performing some of his earliest songs, like "King of Kings" and "Miss Jamaica" from the early 1960s, but also some cover songs that were influences on him, like "Honor Your Mother and Father," "Judge Not" (written by Bob Marley before he was famous), "Hold Me Tight," and "Cupid." All in all, this is a great concert recording to remember him by.
This album is an hour and 58 minutes long.
01 Bongo Man - Rivers of Babylon
02 talk
03 King of Kings
04 Miss Jamaica
05 talk
06 Hard Road to Travel
07 You Can Get It If You Really Want
08 Wild World
09 Rebel Rebel
10 Under the Sun, Moon and Stars
11 talk
12 Vietnam
13 World Upside Down
14 Treat the Youths Right
15 Rub-A-Dub Partner - Reggae Movement
16 Many Rivers to Cross
17 talk
18 Honor Your Mother and Father
19 talk
20 Judge Not
21 talk
22 Hold Me Tight
23 talk
24 Cupid
25 talk
26 The Harder They Come
27 I Can See Clearly Now
28 Reggae Night (
29 talk
30 One More
31 talk
32 Welcome Home
33 Wonderful World, Beautiful People
34 talk
35 Sitting in Limbo
36 talk
37 Children's Bread
38 talk
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