Reggae is gonna make it. I know it. I know it with all the conviction of a religious convert, and I've been spreading the word….

Unfortunately, the record which is going to change things so drastically is not Jimmy Cliff's new album. I say "unfortunately," because [Unlimited] is released on a major US label which is perfectly capable of doing a more than honorable job of promoting it, getting it into the stores, and keeping it in the public eye. But I'm afraid Jimmy Cliff, in his mid-20s, is already a has-been, at least as a singer. He was electrifying in the movie The Harder They Come, and both his acting and his songs held the picture together, but all those songs date from the same era which produced his LP masterpiece, Wonderful World, Beautiful People…. Since then, he's done a lot of work but little of...