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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 a 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.
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 - SEGMENT: Toots Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals INTERVIEW:
Listen - 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 - Pipeliner Blues Moon Mullican
Moon's Rock, Bear Family - Levee Camp Blues Washboard Sam
Get Down Brother, Camden - Mule Skinner Blues Van Morrison
The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute, Egyptian/Columbia - 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
Listen - 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 - End Bed: Work Song Grant Green
2 By 5 Guitar Jazz, 32 Jazz
