Just as I Am (Bill Withers album)

Infobox Album
Name = Just as I Am
Type = studio
Artist = Bill Withers


Released = 1971
Recorded = 1971; Sunset Sound
(Hollywood, California)
Genre = Rhythm and blues, soul
Length =
Label = Sussex
Producer = Booker T. Jones
Reviews =
*"All About Jazz" (favorable) [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=20050 link]
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kvm1z82ajyv1 link]
*Robert Christgau (A-) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Bill+Withers link]
*"Entertainment Weekly" (A-) [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1136259,00.html link]
*PopMatters (favorable) [http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/w/withersbill-just2005.shtml link]
Last album =
This album = "Just as I Am"
(1971)
Next album = "Still Bill"
(1972)

"Just as I Am" is a 1971 album by Bill Withers, released by Sussex Records. It includes the hit single "Ain't No Sunshine", which appears at number 280 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Booker T. Jones produces, arranges, and plays keyboards on the record, and Stephen Stills guests on guitar. The album was reissued as a dual disc with a second disc featuring all the tracks in 5.1 Surround Sound.

Track listing

"All tracks composed by Bill Withers; except where indicated."
#"Harlem" – 3:23
#"Ain't No Sunshine" – 2:04
#"Grandma's Hands" – 2:00
#"Sweet Wanomi" – 2:34
#"Everbody's Talkin'" (Fred Neil) – 3:26
#"Do It Good" – 2:53
#"Hope She'll Be Happier" – 3:49
#"Let It Be" (John Lennon/Paul McCartney) – 2:35
#"I'm Her Daddy" – 3:17
#"In My Heart" – 4:20
#"Moanin' and Groanin'" – 2:59
#"Better Off Dead" – 2:16

Charts

Personnel

*Bill Withers - guitar, vocals
*Stephen Stills - guitar
*Jim Keltner - drums
*Booker T. Jones - guitar, keyboards
*Hall Bobby Porter - percussion
*Ali Mohammed Jackson - drums

Later Samples

*"Ain't No Sunshine"
**"Soulja's Story" by 2Pac from the album "2Pacalypse Now"