Bill Withers – the singer who poured his heart and soul into his music

Withers’s confessional third album, 1974’s ‘+’Justments’, pulled listeners directly into the pain he felt over the break-up of his brief and tumultuous first marriage. Helen Brown pays tribute

“I wish I was like you / Easily amused / Find my nest of salt / Everything's my fault.” As headbangers with bleeding poets’ hearts, Nirvana were singular. Yet their slower songs have become unjustly obscured as the decades have rolled by.

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