Row 1: Neil Peart, Riley Gale, Martin Birch, Peter Green, Lee Kerslake. Row 2: Ken Hensley, Pete Way, McCoy Tyner, Billy Joe Shaver and Bill Withers. Row 3: Little Richard, Eddie Van Halen, Ennio Morricone, Andy Gill and John Prine. Row 4: Florian Schneider, Fredderick ‘Toots’ Hibbert, Adam Schlesinger, Bones Hillman and…

Toots Hibbert, Courtesy Highrise PR. Frederick Nathaniel “Toots” Hibbert died in Jamaica on Friday evening. While no cause of death has been given, the singer was recently reported to be hospitalized for COVID-19 and had been in a medically induced coma and on a ventilator at the University Hospital…

In 2013, a fan who was having a little too much fun at a concert struck then-71-year-old Frederick Nathaniel “Toots” Hibbert, lead singer of Toots and the Maytals, in the head with a bottle of vodka. The incident caused Hibbert to suspend touring, and instead to hunker down in…

Jason Mraz, “Look For The Good.” Every white family has that uncle who adopts a Jamaican accent after a couple beers at the BBQ. His impression involves an endless recombining of the phrases, “Yah, mon,” and “Feelin’ irie.” It’s cultural appropriation and completely cringeworthy, but it’s also kinda cute…