Still Bill

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Withers approaches the plainspoken insight on "Lonely Town, Lonely Street" and heartbreaking vulnerability of "I Don't Want You on My Mind" with similar sincerity and straightforwardness. Do the vocals on the original sound as forward as the MoFi does at times, or is that offset by the low end? I find that it has all of the signatures of a typical modern MoFi pressing, the bass is definitely enhanced over what you are going to hear on the original pressings. Soemthing tells me he wrote a bunch of songs on his acoustic, came into the studio and the producer was like, :we are not going to sell reccords with a bunch of folk soul, lets put a lot of wah wah gutiar and some funk rhythms, and the result is eh. Vote up content that is on-topic, within the rules/guidelines, and will likely stay relevant long-term.

It’s an identity couched in keeping it real, the very inclination that ultimately led Withers to retire in the mid-’80s rather than bend to industry pressures or risk credibility. No track better exemplifies those principles than "Lean on Me," a feel-good paean to brotherhood and community that hit No. Don't be fooled just by 'Lean on Me', this album contains many other songs in a totally different style. Withers’ calm, self-assured voice hovers above it all, doubling as a warm blanket that adds comfort and grace to lyrics steeped in maturity, perspective, and compassion.I did a comparison to USE ME and LEAN ON ME on the Greatest Hits from Mofi and those two tracks are much more dynamic with more bass and really just sound warmer and more appealing to me on the Greatest Hits album. It's rich, subtly layered music, but its best attribute is that it comes on easy, never sounding labored or overworked. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. What attracted me more than the richer sound palette here, though, is his words: dialectic, poetic, but also simple.

In 2020, Still Bill ranked number 333 on Rolling Stone 's revised edition of the " 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). As it celebrates its 50th anniversary, Bill Withers’ Still Bill remains true to its title – and stands as the greatest male-fronted soul album not made by a singer named Marvin, Al, Sam, James, or Ray. And there are some good tracks here (I quite like Withers delving into funk), along with some pretty standard soul music.These are shades-of-gray stories, full of a mature understanding of human nature", Moon observed, before concluding that, "even when reflecting on weighty matters, Withers cultivates a mood of unflappable calm, making everything sound like a lazy summer evening on the front porch.

as much as I like alternative cover art as much as the next vinyl junkie I will say I strictly grabbed this one bc someone sold it to me for cheap since they didn't like the cover haha. And the lifelike presence and directness of his singing, as well as the smooth glide of his phrasing, further elevate the magnificence of the music and underscore why the record Rolling Stone named the 303rd Greatest Album of All Time continues to escalate in stature.Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Because he's still got it; Mobile Fidelity here reissue the album on its 50th Anniversary, doing thorough justice to the soul crooner's original album first released on the landmark Sussex Records in 1972.

Withers approaches the plainspoken insight on “Lonely Town, Lonely Street” and heartbreaking vulnerability of “I Don’t Want You on My Mind” with similar sincerity and straightforwardness. Comes in a normal plastic wrap (as opposed to a plastic shrink-wrap) with a black Music On Vinyl sticker, mentioning "exclusively remastered" and "180 gram audiophile vinyl pressing". At least that's the way it seems, but reading the liner notes really made it clear that the path for the 30 y/o aircraft fitter was anything but easy, even after the success of the first BW album.Many tracks use the "Decca tree" configuration, invented by engineers in the early 1950's using 3 Neumann M50 microphones.