Labor Day with Toots Hibbert and Johnny Rivers
Put your feet up and relax on this Labor Day weekend with music of work and workers in blues, jazz, country and more. There’s also a conversation with one- time barber and boxer, reggae legend Toots Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals. Hard-working roots rocker Johnny Rivers drops by to talk about his developing that live Whiskey-A-Go-Go sound. Plus we visit the morgue for thoughts on music and life from New Orleans’ official coroner—and trumpeter—Dr. Frank Minyard.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Hammer Ring Henry Scott and Group
Wake Up Dead Man, Rounder
Pressure Drop Toots and the Maytals
The Harder They Come, Mango
Work, Work, Work Lee Dorsey
Wheelin' and Dealin': The Definitive Collection, Arista
Big Boss Man Jimmy Witherspoon
Spoonful, Blue Note
Work Song Michael Bloomfield w/ The Butterfield Blues Band
Essential Blues: 1964-1969, Columbia/Legacy
Instrumental: Blueberry Hill Mose Allison
Back Country Suite, Prestige
I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday Los Lobos
El Cancionero Mas y Mas, Rhino
Blue Monday Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
Pressure Drop Toots and the Maytals
The Harder They Come, Mango
INTERVIEW: Toots Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals
Instrumental: A Hard Day's Night Bar-Kays
The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968, Atlantic
Maggie's Farm Solomon Burke
Blues and Soul Power, Warner
Dear Landlord Janis Joplin
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!, Columbia/Legacy
Cumberland Blues Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead, Warner
Walking Boss Doc Watson
Memories, Sugar Hill
A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today Merle Haggard
The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology, 1963-1977, Razor & Tie
John Henry Hank Thompson & the Brazos Valley Boys
Hank Thompson & the Brazos Valley Boys, Bear Family
John Henry Billie & De De Pierce
Gulf Coast Blues, Arhoolie
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Hard Day's Night Quincy Jones
Talkin' Verve, Verve
Every Man to His Own Profession Louis Jordan
Let the Good Times Roll, Bear Family
The Undertaker Man Kermit Ruffins
The Big Butter and Egg Man, Justice
Every Man to His Own Profession Louis Jordan
Let the Good Times Roll, Bear Family
Pipeliner Blues Moon Mullican
Moon's Rock, Bear Family
A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid Pearl Bailey
For Adult Listening, Mercury
Railroad Porter's Blues Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson and His Orchestra
The Mercury Blues 'N' Rhythm Story: 1945-1955, Mercury
Instrumental: Tishomingo Sammy Price and the Rock Band with King Curtis & Mickey Baker
Rib Joint, Savoy Jazz
INTERVIEW: Johnny Rivers
Workin' Man Blues Jerry Lee Lewis
The Locust Years and… The Return to the Promised Land, Bear Family
Working Man's Blues Johnny Copeland
Working Man's Blues, Fuel 2000
Housewife Blues The Enchanters
Jubilee Jezebels, Sequel
Instrumental: Nice Work If You Can Get It Charlie Byrd
The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd, Riverside
I Got Plenty o' Nuttin Shirley Horn
I Remember Miles, Verve
Nice Work If You Can Get It Thelonious Monk
The London Collection, Vol. 1, Black Lion
Work Song Grant Green
2 By 5 Guitar Jazz, 32 Jazz