Toots Hibbert released a new album this week. Toots Hibbert is a name that won't pop up on many radar screens.

He was the founding member of the Jamaican band the Maytals, which would become better known as Toots and the Maytals.

They recorded one of the classic reggae albums of all time, "Funky Kingston." And Toots and the Maytals were the first band to actually use the word "reggae."

It was in this 1968 hit called "Do the Reggay."

Well, that was then.

This is now.

That of course is the Ray Charles tune, "I Gotta Woman." Toots Hibbert -- like many Jamaicans -- has had an on-going love affair with American rhythm and blues.

This tune has been a standard in Toots' concert playlist for the last three decades. 62 year-old Toots Hibbert got his biggest outing in the US in 1973. That was the year that the cult hit movie "The Harder They Come" featuring reggae singer Jimmy Cliff came out here.

The Jamaican film featured Toots and the Maytals tunes like "Pressure Drop" and "Sweet and Dandy." A string of hits -- including 31 number one singles in Jamaica -- and finally a Grammy award in 2004 would follow.

Toots and the Maytals latest recording is called "Light Your Light." It features Bonnie Raitt playing slide guitar on one track.

And Allman Brothers' Band progeny Derek Trucks on slide on this Toots number from the 70s.

It's called "Johnny Coolman."