Trojan Records has announced that it will release Harder Road To Travel, a two-CD retrospective of the Jimmy Cliff’s work from 1960 to 1972.
Disc one, titled King Of Kings, contains ska songs like Hurricane Hatty which was produced by Leslie Kong, the Chinese-Jamaican businessman who recorded Judge Not, the first song done by a singer from St Ann named Bob Marley.
The second disc, titled Wonderful World, Beautiful People, hears songs that helped make Cliff one of reggae’s first superstars. These include the 1969 title track which was a top-20 hit in Britain, and the protest song, Vietnam, both produced by Kong who was in the middle of a golden run with Toots and The Maytals.
