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The music hasn't dated at all. Bill Withers is an incredible inspiration. He didn't start his music career until his 30's. His rich baritone and deep sense of soul is still moving and beautiful today. 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. 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. 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. When Bill bloomed, he bloomed like no one before him. It also shows that many popular songs don't have to be repetitve and hollow.
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.
I cannot get enough of this album. I listen, I sing, I share. He sings of tender love, heartache and heartbreak and gives us words of wisdom.
His lyrics are so well placed. Is it for us or is it for him. Bill Withers' voice is smooth and easy on the ears.
Bill Withers is a Giant walking softly with his music. They start to take me in one direction and then spin me around and take me to another place. He is, in my estimation, a genius.
No matter. Thank you Bill Withers.
It is stuck in my truck c.d. player and I can't get it out. Capt.
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. I highly recommend this collection, it'll stack up well against any other artist of his genre.
While looking for another artist I happened to run across Bill Withers and something began to happen. It became evident that those days were again available in this package. 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. Some songs I didn't remember as being done by him but there they were. Thank goodness for memories.
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