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Bill Withers

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Editor's note

Bill Withers, the plainspoken poet of everyday life

A former Navy man who started making music in his thirties and wrote songs that felt both personal and universal.

For the full picture, listen to 'Lean On Me' and 'Use Me' back to back. They show his range from community anthem to personal groove.

Withers wrote with a direct, conversational quality that sketched scenes from everyday life. Songs like 'Ain't No Sunshine' from his 1971 debut 'Just As I Am' became immediate classics because of their emotional specificity. His work has a durability that comes from that unadorned delivery.

Born in a West Virginia coal-mining community, he served in the Navy before turning to music in his thirties. He stepped away from recording in the mid-1980s after albums like 'Still Bill,' though he occasionally performed in later years.

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Bill Withers was born in Slab Fork, West Virginia in 1938, a coal-mining community where his father worked. He served in the Navy before turning to music in his thirties. His debut album 'Just As I Am' came out in 1971 and included 'Ain't No Sunshine,' a spare, aching song about absence that became an immediate classic.

That record and the ones that followed, like 'Still Bill,' contained songs that felt both personal and universal. 'Lean On Me' became an anthem of community support, while 'Lovely Day' was a simple, persistent statement of optimism. His writing had a direct, conversational quality, often sketching scenes from everyday life with plainspoken clarity.

He stepped away from recording in the mid-1980s, though he occasionally performed in later years. The songs he left behind, from the groove of 'Use Me' to the warmth of 'Just The Two Of Us,' have a durability that comes from their emotional specificity and unadorned delivery.

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