Album review: Jimmy Cliff's influence comes full circle on 'Rebirth'

Two cover songs on Jimmy Cliff’s long-simmering comeback album “Rebirth” accentuate how deep the reggae singer’s influence is, and how his vision has come full circle. Without Cliff’s sweet delivery (like on his staple “Many Rivers to Cross”) and steely presence (see his 1972 reggae-gangster flick “The Harder They Come”), there would have been no “Guns of Brixton” by the Clash or “Ruby Soho” by the Bay Area dance-hall punks Rancid. But both songs appear on “Rebirth,�...

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