The Best of Bill Withers: Lean on Me

by Bill Withers

The Best of Bill Withers: Lean on Me cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 30 May 2000
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:13:43
  • Community rating: 3.82/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A survey of Bill Withers's Sussex and Columbia recordings of the 1970s, the decade that produced 'Ain't No Sunshine', 'Lean on Me' and 'Lovely Day'. Withers's plainspoken baritone and acoustic guitar writing gave his soul records a folk directness that this collection presents in sequence.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, male-vocals, soulful, acoustic, classic

Tracklist

  1. Lovely Day (4:11)
  2. I Want To Spend The Night (3:40)
  3. Let Me Be The One You Need (4:41)
  4. Hello Like Before (5:25)
  5. Tender Things (4:56)
  6. I Wish You Well (3:57)
  7. Ain't No Sunshine (2:03)
  8. Grandma's Hands (2:00)
  9. The Same Love That Made Me Laugh (3:22)
  10. Lean On Me (4:17)
  11. Harlem (3:22)
  12. Use Me (3:42)
  13. Who Is He (And What Is He To You)? (3:12)
  14. You Just Can't Smile It Away (4:41)
  15. Just The Two Of Us (3:57)
  16. Steppin' Right Along (5:42)
  17. You Try To Find A Love (5:42)
  18. My Imagination (4:53)

Credits

  • Russ Kunkel - drums, percussion, congas
  • M.B. Gordy - electronic drums [simmons], tom tom [toms], tambourine, hihat [high-hat]
  • Paul Smith - keyboards, synthesizer [yamaha dx-7], double bass [pizzicato bass], horns
  • Lily Lew - product manager [packaging manager]
  • Joy Gilbert - project manager [project director]
  • Joel Whitburn - research [chart information]
  • Robbie Buchanan - synthesizer [synthesizer strings]
  • Don Freeman - synthesizer [yamaha dx-7], synthesizer [strings], vibraphone [vibes], voice [voices]
  • Michel Colombier - arranged by, producer, written-by
  • Leo Sacks - compilation producer, producer
  • Joseph M. Palmaccio - mastered by, mastering
  • Howard Fritzson - art direction
  • Watts Design? - design
  • David Ritz - liner notes
  • Michael Ochs Archives - photography by [inset photos]
  • Sony Music Entertainment - photography by [inset photos]
  • Bill Halverson - recorded by
  • Bill Lazerus - recorded by
  • Bob Hughes - recorded by
  • Bob Merritt - recorded by
  • Ed Cherney - recorded by
  • Keith Seppanen - recorded by
  • Mick Guzauski - recorded by
  • Phil Schier - recorded by
  • Richard Alderson - recorded by
  • Skip Scarborough - written-by
  • Paul Riser - arranged by [string and horn arrangements]
  • John Collins - written-by
  • John Myles - arranged by [strings]
  • Stanley McKenny - written-by
  • William Salter - written-by
  • Denny Diante - producer
  • The Feeling - arranged by

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