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1971 studio album by Jimmy Cliff
Another Cycle
Studio album by Jimmy Cliff
Released1971
StudioMuscle Shoals (Alabama)
GenreReggae
LabelIsland
ProducerGuilly Bright
Jimmy Cliff chronology
Jimmy Cliff
(1969) 		Another Cycle
(1971) 		The Harder They Come
(1972)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

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

Production

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

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."

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
  • Larry Henby, Steve Smith, Marlin Green - engineer

References

  1. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 2. MUZE. pp. 418–419.
  2. ^ "ISLAND AMBASSADOR". Wax Poetics. 9 December 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  3. Another Cycle at AllMusic
  4. "Artist Biography by Jo-Ann Greene". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  5. "Jimmy Cliff Better Days Are Coming: The A&M Years 1969-1971 (Hip-O Select)". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  6. Whitley, Carla Jean (2014). Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: How the Swampers Changed American Music. Arcadia Publishing.
  7. Keresztesi, Rita (2020). Literary Black Power in the Caribbean: Fiction, Music and Film. Routledge. p. 124.
  8. Gundersen, Edna (1 July 2005). "'Better Days' coming from Jimmy Cliff". USA Today: E1.

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