Bill Withers ORIG US LP Making music VG+ '75 Columbia PC33704 Soul R&B
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Bill Withers ORIG US LP Making music VG+ '75 Columbia PC33704 Soul R&B
Original US LP released in 1975 on Columbia Records. Cat: PC33704. Comes with printed inner bag and printed lyric insert, both are in Excellent condition.
It can prove somewhat difficult to place Bill Withers among his peers. Despite a brief revival thanks to Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, he will always remain something of an outsider to the soul movement. Starting out as an aircraft mechanic for the Navy, his performing career happened more or less by accident. Surprised to be invited to re-record his own demos a modest Withers had intended his songs for others he came forth with two brilliant albums chock-full of intriguing stories on mournful alcoholics, adulterers, and his late grandmother's hands. His exceptional talent as a storyteller placed him perhaps more in league with West Coast singer songwriters like Stephen Stills, who helped out on his debut, Just as I Am. A Vietnam chant, "I Can't Write Left Handed," placed him further apart as a socially conscious performer. The accompanying album, Live at Carnegie Hall, makes clear Withers is about total commitment to the music and music alone. Once called "the poet Stax never had" by onetime producer Booker T., his influence on artists like Ben Harper and Erykah Badu is not to be taken lightly. Much of the above can be said about Making Music. Because of the regretful demise of Withers' original label, Sussex, his fifth album was released on Columbia. It possesses the same down-to-earthiness and eye for ordinary day life as his former releases, though the production sometimes trades the organic "feel" for the familiar "end of the '70s slickness."
Tracks : She's lonely/ Don't you want to stay?/ Hello like before/ The best you can/ Family table/ I wish you well/ Paint your pretty picture/ Sometimes a song/ I love you dawn/ Make love to your mind.
There are a few light spindle marks on labels. Record has some scuff marks and a few very light scratches that cause some light crackles and is in VG+ condition. Cover is in Excellent condition.
Wrapping method: All records are sent in stiff cardboard mailers then wrapped in brown paper and sealed around edges with brown packaging tape. Records are taken out of sleeve to avoid seam splits and ring wear.
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