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It also shows that many popular songs don't have to be repetitve and hollow. This album has all his signature songs from Ain't No Sunshine to his magisterial Lean on Me. After some lean years, he was finally signed in 1970, and the hits happened relatively quickly. It also has some gems like Grandma's Hands (which I first heard on Gil Scott-Heron's Reflections album) that aren't really as well known as the other tunes. His rich baritone and deep sense of soul is still moving and beautiful today. Bill Withers is an incredible inspiration.
Most musicians start around their teens years, but not Bill. No matter how many times you hear Lean on Me, it's still as moving as the first time you've heard it. He's the epitome of the late bloomer. The music hasn't dated at all. Bill Withers shows that it is never too late to follow a dream, or to follow that voice inside you that says there's something better out there, and that you have to follow your intuition and heart to fullfill yourself. He didn't start his music career until his 30's.
When Bill bloomed, he bloomed like no one before him.
They start to take me in one direction and then spin me around and take me to another place. No matter. Bill Withers' voice is smooth and easy on the ears.
Bill Withers is a Giant walking softly with his music. I listen, I sing, I share. Is it for us or is it for him.
I cannot get enough of this album. He sings of tender love, heartache and heartbreak and gives us words of wisdom. Thank you Bill Withers.
His lyrics are so well placed. He is, in my estimation, a genius.
Capt. It is stuck in my truck c.d. player and I can't get it out.
I highly recommend this collection, it'll stack up well against any other artist of his genre. My wife had an old copy of this CD around and played it one day, and I was very surprised at how great these songs were. They all seemed familiar from the radio, and yet I had never heard of Bill Withers.
It became evident that those days were again available in this package. While looking for another artist I happened to run across Bill Withers and something began to happen. Thank goodness for memories. Some songs I didn't remember as being done by him but there they were. I started to remember the years of my youth. Those evenings listening to the radio while in a friends father's car while looking for girls.
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