Album review: Jimmy Cliff's 'Sacred Fire EP'

Reggae history doubles back on itself on Jimmy Cliff's new EP, which opens with a cover of “The Guns of Brixton,” the Clash tune that name-checks Cliff's 1972 movie “The Harder They Come.” What's more, the EP was produced by Tim Armstrong of Rancid, a devoted Clash acolyte whose own Jamaican leanings speak to Cliff's influence on punks from successive generations; after “The Guns of Brixton,” Cliff, 63, does Rancid's “Ruby Soho,” reanimating Armstrong's memory of “echoes of reg...

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