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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
| Hanging Fire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1988 | |||
| Studios | House of Music, West Orange, New Jersey | |||
| Genre | Reggae | |||
| Label | Columbia[1] | |||
| Producers | Khalis Bayyan, Jimmy Cliff | |||
| Jimmy Cliff chronology | ||||
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Hanging Fire is an album by the Jamaican reggae musician Jimmy Cliff, released in 1988.[2][3] It was a commercial disappointment.[4]
The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Reggae Recording".[5] Its first single was "Love Me Love Me".[6] Cliff supported the album with a three-month tour of North America.[7]
The album was produced primarily at Tuff Gong Studios, with other work finished by Cliff in Africa.[8] Cliff then took the songs to Khalis Bayyan, of Kool and the Gang, who remixed and overdubbed them.[9][10]
Cliff recorded with the Oneness Band, in Jamaica, and with two popular Congolese bands in the Congo.[10][8] Cliff was inspired to record in the Congo after opening for Steve Winwood there, on a 1986 tour.[11] The song "Reggae Down Babylon" condemns apartheid.[12]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [13] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [14] |
| Los Angeles Times |  [15] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [16] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [17] |
The Washington Post wrote that the songs "aren't traditional reggae by any stretch of the imagination, but they successfully fuse the best aspects of reggae—the syncopated beat, the populist lyrics and the hypnotic melodies—with enough technological muscle and polish to thrive on a North American dance floor."[10] The St. Petersburg Times thought that the album "is about as commercial and pop-oriented as reggae can get without losing sight of its folk roots."[18]
The Boston Globe called Hanging Fire Cliff's "best effort of the '80s," writing that "his voice has returned to its crystalline purity."[19] The Los Angeles Times deemed the album "bland and characterless."[15] The Toronto Star noted that the album "shows the singer taking two steps back to the traditions of Africa—and one side-step into the soppiest of pop."[20]
AllMusic wrote that the album "shows him effectively mixing his own quick-step version of the music with general pop trends."[13] MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide considered that "mediocrity from Cliff may not be so unsettling had he not once reached greatness."[16]
All tracks are written by Jimmy Cliff.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Love Me Love Me" | 4:24 |
| 2. | "Hanging Fire" | 5:23 |
| 3. | "Girls and Cars" | 5:02 |
| 4. | "She Was So Right for Me" | 4:43 |
| 5. | "It's Time" | 5:21 |
| 6. | "Reggae Down Babylon" | 4:23 |
| 7. | "Hold Tight (Eye for an Eye)" | 4:22 |
| 8. | "Soar Like an Eagle" | 5:30 |
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Hanging Fire is an album by the Jamaican reggae musician Jimmy Cliff, released in 1988. It was a commercial disappointment. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Reggae Recording". Its first single was "Love Me Love Me". Cliff supported the album with a three-month tour of North America.
Lisa Evans is a British playwright and has been a Royal Literary Fund fellow at several universities. She trained as an actor at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and performed in the United Kingdom and the United States before becoming a playwright. Her work includes the stage adaptation of Melvyn Bragg's The Maid of Buttermere, and The Day the Waters Came, about the effects of Hurricane Katrina. She has written for television including EastEnders, Holby City, Casualty, Peak Practice and The Bill. Her work for radio includes Stamping, Shouting and Singing Home (BBC Radio 4 Monday Play, 1987), Ring o'Roses (Afternoon Theatre, 1981) and Hanging Fire, about the Red Barn Murder (Monday Play, 1990). She won the British Theatre Association award in 1986 for Under Exposure and in 1988 for The Red Chair, and the Writers' Guild award for best play for young audiences in 2011 for The Day the Waters Came and in 2017 for Rise Up.
Hanging On by a Thread is the second album by The Letter Black. It is their first album to be released on Tooth & Nail Records and their first album to not be released independently. The album was released on May 4, 2010, and has sold over 100,000 copies in the United States by 2011. The album entered the Billboard Top Christian Albums chart at No. 10.
Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature. Hanging has been a standard method of capital punishment since the Middle Ages, and has been the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. As a form of execution, it is commonly practiced at a structure called a gallows. The first known account of execution by hanging is in Homer's Odyssey. Hanging is also a common method of suicide.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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