Consumer Guide Album

Jimmy Cliff: In Concert/The Best of Jimmy Cliff [Reprise, 1976]
In which Cliff rerecords all the great songs he cut originally for Island and A&M--that is, all the great songs he's written, about six total--at a new royalty rate. Always a passionately soulful live performer, he puts a lot into them, but the exigencies of in-concert arrangement take more out, and only "Viet Nam," with its litany of war-torn Third World countries, offers anything radically new. Also new are a cover of Cat Stevens's "Wild World," a singalong movie theme, and a brief sermon about the universal language. C+