Jimmy Cliff and Marley at SXSW festival

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Eric on Sunday, March 25, 2012 - 11:10 am: Edit Post

I was lucky enough to see one of Jimmy Cliff's South By Southwest (SXSW) Festival's shows last week. (I think he played 5 in all).

Here's a link to a page with audio of the 20 minute show. Unfortunately, no video. http://kut.org/2012/03/kut-at-the-four-seasons-jimmy-cliff/
Great show, especially for 9am in the morning. The guy's in his sixties, but he'd done a show the night before and the next night he was on stage with Bruce Springsteen. He still has the pipes and the passion to sing his songs!

I also saw a screening of the new Marley film, a bio pic on Bob's life featuring interviews with a lot of those who were in the midst of his life...Rita, Bunny, Chris Blackwell, Ziggy, Peter Tosh (through old interviews), Jimmy Cliff and many more. It was very worth the price of admission with beautifully shot film, tons of great music, and good insight on that era in Jamaica's music scene.

Ziggy and the director, Kevin MacDonald(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531817/), took questions afterwards. (Does Ziggy ever stop smiling? :-)
Here's a trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QGqNJcksFc