Bill Withers Had It Right - A Rant

A note to the reader: Bill Withers is meant to be played LOUD.

Bill Withers is smooth as fuck.  He is the brass, the boss of all bosses.  Withers is the man about town who owns everyone and everything.  Anybody who can pull off a purple turtleneck has a leg up in this world.  He plays the guitar with these massive hands that shouldn’t fit the strings, but what comes out is a melody of brilliant madness.  He talks the way he sings and he sings the way he talks, with perpetual ease.  Listen to Lovely Day and try not to party, listen to Ain’t No Sunshine and try not to reminisce, and listen to Just the Two of Us and try not to dance.  Withers crushes the competition and he does it with gut-wrenching soul.  If you don’t like Bill Withers then there is absolutely, positively something wrong with you.  He’s an unrivaled master who wins at life and does it all while holding notes for preposterous lengths.  In case you haven’t surmised, Miles ain’t got nothing on Bill Withers, and Bill Withers makes Sinatra look silly.