Track Listing

1. Ain't No Sunshine
2. Grandma's Hands
3. Lean On Me
4. Use Me
5. Kissing My Love
6. Who Is He And What Is He To You
7. I Don't Want You On My Mind
8. Same Love That Made Me Laugh
9. Hello Like Before
10. Lovely Day
11. Let Me Be The One You Need
12. I Want To Spend The Night
13. Stepping Right Along
14. Whatever Happens
15. Watching You Watching Me
16. Heart Is Your Life
17. You Try To Find A Love
18. Just The Two Of Uus

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #252317 in Music
• Released on: 1995-05-11
• Number of discs: 1

CD Description
Although Bill Withers went into a self-imposed musical exile following the release of 1985's WATCHING YOU WATCHING ME, his influence has quietly lived on. He's been covered by Club Nouveau ("Lean on Me"), Me'Shell NdegeOcello with "Who Is He (And What Is He to You)", by Paul McCartney with "Ain't No Sunshine" and has been the beneficiary of a Mick Jagger and Lenny Kravitz duet ("Use Me"). Will Smith and Austin Powers have both referenced him ("Just the Two of Us"), while theGap has based a highly successful commercial around 1977's "Lovely Day".
This compilation contains the originals ofthese classics along with a number of lesser-known nuggets that meld R&B, funk, jazz and folk elements around highly sensitive lyrics honed by listening to gospel while growing upin a rural West Virginia coal mining town. Highlights include "Harlem", with its instrumental build-up and aggressive string arrangements, the bossa-nova elegance of "I Want to Spend the Night" and the brassy soul of "I Wish You Well".