[The Harder They Come] catapulted Cliff to fame as a renegade culture hero. Too bad it's been downhill for Jimmy since—his own music has hardly attained the heroic status promised by his film role & the music he sang therein. His records since … tend to be more calypso/soul-slick than highlife/jass-raw. Sounds like a transmutation of Traffic and Freddie & the Dreamers with Richie Havens, closer to Vegas than God. Peace & carrots lyrics about how he loves his mom and how we should all get together…. With the right kinda band & a songwriting shakedown, Jimmy could do it….

Bruce Malamut, "Royal Jamaican," in Crawdaddy (copyright © 1976 by Crawdaddy Publishing Co., Inc.; all rights reserved; reprinted by permission), January, 1976, p. 73.∗