2/22/2024 0 Comments Jimmy cliff please tell me whyWe find Jimmy sitting at the Sanctum's wood panelled restaurant, dressed in a red string sweater wearing glasses with red rims. Today, with his album, which revisits the Kong era,, and with the 50th anniversary of both Jamaican independence and Jimmy's debut studio session, it feels like everything has come full circle. Yet critical acclaim has been a fair weather friend due to his restless, experimental nature and his eclecticism (whereas Bob Marley, the youth he helped get a start at Leslie Kong's Beverley's Records, was always, whether philosophically or in marketing terms, a consistent brand). The love fans feel for Cliff, the man who took Reggae international for a whole generation through his music and the film The Harder They Come, has never dimme. Now Jimmy is back in his former home to promote his new album Rebirth, produced by Tim Armstrong of the punk group Rancid, the follow-up to their Sacred Fire taster EP which was released last year to critical acclaim. ![]() A fortuitous meeting, as Jimmy and Jimi became friends in the mid sixties while they were both strangers abroad, trying to shop their then unknown music in the cold ramparts of the United Kingdom. The first legend of music Reggaeville encounters when entering the West End's plush epicurean Sanctum Hotel to interview Jimmy Cliff is not Jimmy himself - but a large gaudy stain glass panel depicting Jimi Hendrix.
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