WITHERS, Bill - Still Bill (reissue) - TRANSLUCENT GREEN VINYL LP
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Bill WITHERS
Still Bill (reissue)
Music On Vinyl
limited numbered 180 gram translucent green vinyl LP + booklet Cat: MOVLP 379CRel: 30 Mar 26
Soul Side 1 - Track 1. Lonely Town Lonely Street Side 1 - Track 2. Let Me In Your Life Side 1 - Track 3. Who Is He (& What Is He To You)? Side 1 - Track 4. Use Me Side 1 - Track 5. Lean On Me Side 2 - Track 1. Kissing My Love Side 2 - Track 2. I Don't Know Side 2 - Track 3. Another Day To Run Side 2 - Track 4. I Don't Want You On My Mind Side 2 - Track 5. Take It All In & Check It All Out
No yellow jumpsuits or katanas in sight: Still Bill came way earlier than Kill Bill, in 1972, when the name "Bill" in pop culture by and large referred to Withers and little else. In the early 70s, Withers only needed watering: at odds with the factory machinery he'd previously been thought destined for, and now weary of the label pressures piled on by Sussex Records , who wanted polish, Withers had had enough and resisted, preferring the lean band sound he'd built with guitarist Benorce Blackmon and drummer James Gadson. 'Lean On Me' was cut almost as an afterthought, Withers tapping the piano figure himself, yet it became a number one and a civic anthem. 'Use Me', meanwhile, stirred radio controversy for its unapologetically submissive sexual politics, some stations balking at its candour while others let it ride straight into the Top Ten. 'Who Is He (And What Is He To You)?' carried a darker tension, later finding new life in Jackie Brown.
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