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Jamaican filmmaker Perry Henzell made reggae an integral player in his gritty 1973 saga of a renegade Kingston singer who becomes a modern Robin Hood, casting one of the style's earliest stars, Jimmy Cliff, in the lead, and filling the soundtrack with classics from Toots & the Maytals ("Pressure Drop," "Sweet and Dandy"), Desmond Dekker ("Shanty Town"), the Melodians ("Rivers of Babylon"), and the Slickers ("Johnny Too Bad"). Cliff himself gets pole position, however, getting in the first ("You Can Get It If You Really Want") and last ("The Harder They Come") words in this first-rate reggae primer, which also features Cliff's enduring "Many Rivers to Cross." Reissued here on 180g Vinyl from Universal Records.

Jimmy Cliff The Harder They Come Track Listing

1. You Can Get It If You Really Want - Jimmy Cliff
2. Draw Your Breaks - Jimmy Cliff, Harriott, Derrick
3. Rivers of Babylon - Jimmy Cliff, Dowe, Brenton
4. Many Rivers to Cross - Jimmy Cliff
5. Sweet and Dandy - Jimmy Cliff, Hibbert, Toots
6. The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff
7. Johnny Too Bad - Jimmy Cliff, Crooks, Sydney
8. Shanty Town - Jimmy Cliff, Dekker, Desmond
9. Pressure Drop - Jimmy Cliff, Hibbert, Toots
10. Sitting in Limbo - Jimmy Cliff, Bright, Gully
11. You Can Get It If You Really Want - Jimmy Cliff
12. The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff