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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 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

    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
  • 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

    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
  • Work Song Grant Green
    2 By 5 Guitar Jazz, 32 Jazz

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