What I have always lamented about Bill Withers is that he often isn’t included in the mainstream pantheon of the Great Black Soul Singers. Withers kept working, installing toilet seats for commercial airplanes. If there is a mythology of Withers it is one of the working everyday man. He was the first man in his family to not work in the coal mines of West Virginia. Withers, in both formal interviews and informally recorded banter, could sometimes be crass, even abrasive, but rarely was he oversentimental.

Source: New York Times April 04, 2020 15:00 UTC