Mick Hartley

Where Soul moves into Funk:

But simple, without the horn riffs, or the James Brown moves. Just keeping it – in a word much used with Bill Withers – real. From the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test, 1972 (via).

Ain't No Sunshine, from the same set.

There's a good interview with Withers here, from last year, on why he hasn't recorded since 1985,  his thoughts on white Blaxperts, Back-to-Africa, and other stuff. An interesting man.

You can see the trailer for the 2009 film Still Bill here:

"Most of the major record companies called me up. They had this Rhythm'n'Blues syndrome in their minds, with the horns and the three chicks and the gold lamé suits, and I wasn't really into that…."