Bill Withers - Just As I Am
- Harlem (3:23)
- Ain't No Sunshine (2:05)
- Grandma's Hands (1:59)
- Sweet Wanomi (2:32)
- Everybody's Talkin' (3:24)
- Do It Good (2:52)
- Hope She'll Be Happier (3:50)
- Let It Be (2:36)
- I'm Her Daddy (3:18)
- In My Heart (4:19)
- Moanin' and Groanin' (2:58)
- Better Off Dead (2:14)
- Format
- Vinyl LP
- Tracks
- 12
- Pressing
- 180g
Limited 180-gram vinyl LP pressing of this 1971 album from the soul singer/songwriter. Remastered and repackaged as a part of Sony's Dual Disc series, this album, one of the best soul debuts ever issued, is now available to a whole new generation of listeners that might have missed out the first time. And the remastering brings with it an intimacy the previous editions couldn't quite boast of. ""Ain't No Sunshine,"" ""Harlem"" and ""Better Off Dead"" are beloved tracks that have stood the test of time, and listening to them again here reminds us why. Even Withers's covers are handled with great care and intensity-treated as if they were his own compositions. 12 tracks. Get it now. Music On Vinyl.
- Harlem
- Ain't No Sunshine
- Grandma's Hands
- Sweet Wanomi
- Everybody's Talkin'
- Do It Good
- Hope She'll Be Happier
- Let It Be
- I'm Her Daddy
- In My Heart
- Moanin' and Groanin'
- Better Off Dead
- Format
- Vinyl LP
- Genre
- R&B
- Tracks
- 12
- Pressing
- 180g
- Edition
- Reissue
In his debut album Withers demonstrates his universal, mature competence as a singer, composer and performer, which was hardly surpassed in his later recordings. ""Harlem"", an unadorned milieu-funk number about the New York slums, ""Grandma's Hands"", with it's obligatory retrospect of his childhood, and the sentimental ballad ""Ain't No Sunshine"" with it's prayer-wheel-like -I know, I know...®, repeated over and over again on the offbeat, are the musical credo of a experienced artist in his mid-thirties who at last is given a hearing. There's simply no alternative to this recording by the great songwriter with the small repertoire.
