Yes, I loved him in The Harder They Come even more the second time, and the soundtrack album is the bestest they come. It also contains only three Jimmy Cliff songs. All his other good ones are on Wonderful World, Beautiful People…. The hookless homiletics of [Music Maker], albeit better-realized than those of Struggling Man …, portend a non-star of the future—or a false one.

Robert Christgau, "The Christgau Consumer Guide: 'Music Maker'," in Creem (© copyright 1975 by Creem Magazine, Inc.), Vol. 6, No. 9, February, 1975, p. 13.