Jimmy Cliff - Wolf Lake Memorial Park Pavilion - Hammond USA 2014 | Albums That Should Exist

 

Jimmy Cliff - Wolf Lake Memorial Park Pavilion, Hammond, IN, 7-16-2014

Paul says: Yesterday (November 24, 2025), the world lost another musical great, Jimmy Cliff. He was 81 years old. I wanted to post something to pay tribute to his musical legacy. I looked around, and to my pleasant surprise, discovered this concert. Someone posted it at a bootleg sharing site for the first time just yesterday, also to pay tribute to him. So you haven't heard this before.

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 

all tracks Jimmy Cliff