- Still Bill
Infobox Album |
Name = Still Bill
Type =Album
Artist =Bill Withers
Released = 1972
Recorded =
Genre =R&B /Soul
Length =
Label =Sussex Records
Producer = Benorce Blackmon,Bill Withers , James Gadson, Melvin Dunlap, Ray Jackson
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:bkevad5kv8w1 link]
*Robert Christgau (A) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Bill+Withers link]
*PopMatters (favorable) [http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/w/withersbill-stillbill.shtml link]
* "Rolling Stone " Rating|5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/270598/review/7264530/stillbill link]
Last album = "Just As I Am"
(1971)
This album = "Still Bill"
(1972)
Next album = "Live at Carnegie Hall"
(1973)"Still Bill " is the second album by
Bill Withers , released in 1972 bySussex Records . It includes two hit singles: "Lean on Me", which is number 205 onRolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and went to number 1 on the "Billboard " pop and R&B charts in summer of 1972; and "Use Me", which went to number two on the same charts in fall of 1972. The 2003Columbia Records CD reissue includes two tracks from Withers' 1973 album "Live at Carnegie Hall".Track listing
All tracks composed by Bill Withers; except where indicated
#"Lonely Town, Lonely Street" – 3:42
#"Let Me in Your Life" – 2:41
#"Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?" (Withers, Stanley McKenny) – 3:13
#"Use Me" – 3:45
#"Lean on Me" – 4:17
#"Kissin' My Love" – 3:49
#"I Don't Know" – 3:04
#"Another Day to Run" (Withers, Benorce Blackmon) – 4:38
#"I Don't Want You on My Mind" – 4:34
#"Take It All in and Check It All Out" – 2:42
#"Lonely Town, Lonely Street" – 4:06
Live bonus track on 2003 reissue
#"Let Me in Your Life"– 4:16
Live bonus track on 2003 reissuePersonnel
*Bill Withers - guitar, piano, vocals
*Bobbye Hall - percussion
*Benorce Blackmon - guitar
*Melvin Dunlap - bass
*James Gadson - drums, percussion
*Raymond Jackson - piano, clarinet, horn & string arrangement
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