Jimmy Cliff - 2000-08-25 - Worcester, MA (SBD)

Jimmy Cliff  

2000-08-25

The Palladium

Worcester, MA

Soundboard recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. You Can Get It If You Really Want It

02. Jump (Walkin On)

03. Johnny Too Bad > Son Of Pain

04. Many Rivers To Cross

05. Samba Reggae

06. Family Together

07. Save Our Planet Earth

08. Vietnam

09. Hakuna Matata

10. Wild World

11. Treat The Youths Right

12. Rub-A-Dub Partner

13. The Harder They Come

14. Third World People

15. I Can See Clearly Now

Jimmy Cliff -  2000-08-25 - Worcester, MA (SBD)

When I started following the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia in 1977, I didn’t realize at the time the variety of music I would be exposed to and learn to appreciate. Thanks to the Dead, I learned about musicians such as Merle Haggard, Marty Robbins, Buddy Holly, and Sam Cooke, just to name a few, from their covers of Mama Tried, El Paso, Not Fade Away and Good Times. From Jerry Garcia, I gained my first exposure to the legendary reggae artist, Jimmy Cliff, after hearing stellar live versions of The Harder They Come and Sitting In Limbo. If you don’t have the album, The Harder They Come, which is the soundtrack to the movie of the same name, then you are missing out on one of the landmark recordings in rock history. The disc introduced reggae to mainstream audiences, and has been ranked by Rolling Stone, Time, and Blender as one of the best albums of all time. The music has influenced and been covered by acts as diverse as Garcia, Linda Ronstadt, Joe Jackson, Willie Nelson, The Clash and Bruce Springsteen! This soundboard recording captures Jimmy Cliff on August 25, 2000, 20 years ago today in Worcester.

Jimmy Cliff/Jerry Garcia Connections

• As noted above, the Jerry Garcia Band frequently covered 2 Jimmy Cliff songs in concert, The Harder tHey Come and Sitting In Limbo.  In fact, Garcia played the Harder They Come over 350 times with his various solo bands.
• The reggae legend sat in with Garcia on at the Greek Theater in Berkeley on August 26, 1989, to sing what else, but The Harder They Come!
• Cliff also sang his signature tune at the Dear Jerry tribute concert held on May 14, 2015 in Columbia, Maryland.