Jimmy Cliff

Seekers after a reggae triumvirate insist that this album is an improvement, which is stretching the truth--the singing's a shade tougher, the writing's a shade sharper, and there are two relatively striking tracks, both of which detail Cliff's paranoia. Elsewhere he's still a victim of the folkie fallacy, in which to sing rhymed homilies clearly and sincerely is to make good music. (Grade: C+)