Another Cycle Explained

Another Cycle
Type:studio
Artist:Jimmy Cliff
Cover:Another Cycle.jpg
Released:1971
Studio:Muscle Shoals (Alabama)
Genre:Reggae
Label:Island
Producer:Guilly Bright
Prev Title:Jimmy Cliff
Prev Year:1969
Next Title:The Harder They Come
Next Year:1972

Another Cycle is an album by Jimmy Cliff, released in 1971.[1]

Production

The album was recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, in Alabama.[2] [3] "Sitting in Limbo" was used on the following year's The Harder They Come.[4] Although recorded in the United States, the album was not released in the country.[5]

Critical reception

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called the album "short on roots credibility." Wax Poetics wrote that the album "had some excellent material—Cliff’s earnest tenor nicely contrasted by the bluegrass soul of the Swampers—but despite containing classics such as 'Sitting in Limbo' and the title track, the album was widely panned, falling as it did between two camps and perhaps being too far from the Jamaican vibe that had driven Wonderful World."[6]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Guilly Bright and Jimmy Cliff; except where indicated

  1. "Take a Look at Yourself"
  2. "Please Tell me Why"
  3. "The Rap"
  4. "Opportunity Only Knocks Once"
  5. "My Friend's Wife" (Guilly Bright)
  6. "Another Cycle"
  7. "Sitting in Limbo"
  8. "Oh How I Miss You"
  9. "Inside Out, Upside Down"
  10. "Our Thing is Over" (Guilly Bright)

Personnel

Technical

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Artist Biography by Jo-Ann Greene . AllMusic . 26 March 2021.
  2. Web site: Jimmy Cliff Better Days Are Coming: The A&M Years 1969-1971 (Hip-O Select) . The Austin Chronicle . 26 March 2021.
  3. Book: Whitley . Carla Jean . Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: How the Swampers Changed American Music . 2014 . Arcadia Publishing.
  4. Book: Keresztesi . Rita . Literary Black Power in the Caribbean: Fiction, Music and Film . 2020 . Routledge . 124.
  5. Gundersen . Edna . 'Better Days' coming from Jimmy Cliff . USA Today . 1 July 2005 . E1.
  6. Web site: ISLAND AMBASSADOR . Wax Poetics . 9 December 2020 . 26 March 2021.