Bill Withers – Just As I Am (LP Vinyl)
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Recorded in 1971 with Booker T. Jones producing and members of the MGs in the band, this debut arrived when Withers was 33 years old, having spent years working on the assembly line at a Boeing aircraft factory in Los Angeles. That late start gave the music its weight; these weren't songs written from imagination but from lived experience, and listeners have always been able to tell the difference.
In his debut album Withers demonstrates his universal, mature competence as a singer, composer and performer, which was hardly surpassed in his later recordings. ""Harlem"", an unadorned milieu-funk number about the New York slums, ""Grandma's Hands"", with it's obligatory retrospect of his childhood, and the sentimental ballad ""Ain't No Sunshine"" with it's prayer-wheel-like -I know, I know...®, repeated over and over again on the offbeat, are the musical credo of a experienced artist in his mid-thirties who at last is given a hearing. There's simply no alternative to this recording by the great songwriter with the small repertoire.
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Side B
UPC: 4260019713070
Label: Speakers Corner
Release Date: 9.4.26
Format: LP Vinyl