We recorded the music with the same instruments that we had used back in the days, the same style that we used to record - which is everyone recording at the same time. One has to go back to point zero to move forward again, and so that is what we did. This record almost sounds like a reintroduction of that music you made back in the early days. Guy Raz: It was really you who introduced reggae to much of the world in the late '60s and in the early '70s. We're coming into a new time when all the old laws and ways are breaking down. The rebirth of the planet is also about the new time that we're coming into. So, that's about the rebirth of Jimmy Cliff's career. I had started writing this album without knowing I was going to call it Rebirth, but I had quite a bit of the songs before. It kind of started out when the new millennium began, and up to 2010 when I received the induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - that was like a stepping stone up to the next ladder. Jimmy Cliff: I'm at the point where I'm taking my career to the next level. In an interview with NPR's Guy Raz, Cliff says the record's title, Rebirth, refers both to his own career and to humanity at large. But on his newest album, Cliff sounds as hungry and as vital as he ever did, like a man claiming what was rightfully his all along. In time, the world would embrace Bob Marley as reggae's ambassador Jimmy Cliff never tasted that level of success.
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