Consumer Guide Album

Jimmy Cliff: Music Maker [Reprise, 1974]
It's time we reminded ourselves that there are only four Jimmy Cliff songs on The Harder They Come. His other great ones are on Wonderful World, Beautiful People. The nearest this surprisingly ornate and dinky album comes to a good one is the indictment of Island Records' Chris Blackwell as a "No. 1 Rip-Off Man," very timely given what Island has just scrounged up for its own Jimmy Cliff album, Struggling Man. But both records portend a nonstar of the future--or a false one. C