I became familiar with Bill Withers music in the early 1970's when I worked swing-shift at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley as a [human] Plasma Processing Technician while attending college/university classes during the day, and finally finishing up at age 36 with a BS from U.C Berkeley. My supervisor was a black woman, as was the department head and the majority of the production technicians. In the lunchroom, my black coworkers would sing Withers' most popular songs, and I enjoyed the music. My LP collection included Withers' music as part of my small collection of "Soul/R&B/Blues/Funk" "Lean on Me", "Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone", "Lovely Day" and "just the Two of Us" were his biggest hits.
Bill Withers was a coal-miner's son from West Virginia with a stutter that he did not get over until his 9 years in the U.S. Navy. He didn't get into singing until he was an adult. It isn't "great" music, but Withers' contribution to pop/soul music was something I enjoyed in the 1970s enough to buy a couple of his albums.
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Bill Withers was a coal-miner's son from West Virginia with a stutter that he did not get over until his 9 years in the U.S. Navy. He didn't get into singing until he was an adult. It isn't "great" music, but Withers' contribution to pop/soul music was something I enjoyed in the 1970s enough to buy a couple of his albums.
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