It was sad to read of the death of Bill Withers at the age of 81
I am not a fan of Lovely Day and that put me off exploring his music for a while.
Then I picked up a Best Of in a Record Library sale to find out that he had a lot of songs much better than that one.
The best of them all is I Can't Write Left Handed which I have on A Soldier's Sad Story - Vietnam through the eyes of Black America 1966-73 a brilliant compilation on the Kent label which you should try and get your hands on.
From what I've read since his passing it looks as though he was a sound bloke.
Rest easy Bill
Bill Withers - Lonely Town, Lonely Street
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
Bill Withers - Who Is He (And What Is He to You?)
Bill Withers - I Can't Write Left Handed
Walter posted a 30 mnute show the other day, which is well well worth wtaching. Some people might even convert into mp3 files! Have you got the album Live at Carnegie Hall?
ReplyDelete"Still Bill: The Bill Withers Story" is a documentary worth seeing.
ReplyDeleteChose Lovely Day to accompany a blog post I wrote last year about our “lovely day out”. Found out so much about Bill I hadn’t known about - a sound bloke as you say. Ain’t No Sunshine one of my all time favourites though.
ReplyDeleteI knew you'd pick I Can't Write Left Handed.
ReplyDeleteI don't share your dislike of Lovely Day, though I do understand why some people don't like it. It's the Beatles effect.
My own Top Ten follows tomorrow, and these all feature... except Lonely Town, which may well have been #11.