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Bill Withers — Lean On Me

Name: Lean On Me
Description: Bill Withers didn't start recording music until he was thirty-two, after a decade working on the factory floor assembling aircraft toilets for Hughes Aircraft. He recorded Still Bill between shifts. The album contains Lean On Me, Use Me, and Who Is He — three songs that have outlasted every trend of the past fifty years.

Still Bill · 1972

Label: Sussex · Genre: Soul / Soul · Country: USA · From: Watts, CA, North America

Bill Withers didn't start recording music until he was thirty-two, after a decade working on the factory floor assembling aircraft toilets for Hughes Aircraft. He recorded Still Bill between shifts. The album contains Lean On Me, Use Me, and Who Is He — three songs that have outlasted every trend of the past fifty years.

Did you know: Withers played a $30 guitar on most of the demos. He recorded the entire Still Bill album while still employed at Hughes Aircraft — he kept his day job until the album went gold.

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