From “Lean on Me” to “Just the Two of Us,” we look back at the R&B legend’s most memorable tracks
in 2015. A demo he made caught the ear of Clarence Avant, head of indie label Sussex, and Withers went on to cut some of the most enduring albums of the Seventies, filled with intimate, slow-burning songs that packed a serious emotional wallop. He continued to notch hits till the mid-Eighties, when he became fed up with meddling from his later label Columbia and walked away from the business altogether. But his modest body of work still stands as a gold standard of R&B excellence.
and it registers like a lyrical pile driver — you feel the loss right along with him. “I was watching a movie calledof what inspired the song. “They were both alcoholics who were alternately weak and strong. It’s like going back for seconds on rat poison. Sometimes you miss things that weren’t particularly good for you. It’s just something that crossed my mind from watching that movie, and probably something else that happened in my life that I’m not aware of.
. “I said, ‘Yeah, if you’ll let me go in and try to dress these words up a little bit.’ … It was trying to put a tuxedo on it.”Bill Withers’ last big hit was a jazzy, easygoing meditation on the power of love. “There really ain’t no feeling quite the same as love,” he sings over a spry electric-piano line.
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