Even chilly darkness has the brightest POLL: Bill Withers' STILL BILL
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Sunday, 5 April 2020 21:50 (four years ago) link
i moved in to a cozy little trailer with someone i'm in love with a few months ago. we're both jobless since covid but we're lucky to have some savings so in between bouts of anxiety about income we've both slowed down a little bit - not much to do but care for each other.
anyway i played menagerie the morning i heard he'd died and we had coffee and listened to it. the second "lovely day" started i was giving j. meaningful glances and trying to keep from outright bawling. i hadn't actually listened to menagerie before so it was quite a treat -- even the two disco tracks are good. we got to "tender things" and i told j. that bill withers had died and i cried and j. told me that the song's spirit matched mine. a compliment i'll always remember.
― i am a horse girl (map), Monday, 6 April 2020 02:37 (four years ago) link
i wish i could really say what it is about bill withers that's so special. the familiarity with depression is a part of it. the ability to articulate so clearly what it is about sharing your life with another person that's so fulfilling is another part. and also a healthy, earth-bound sense of ones self in relation to another. a humility, a familiarity with limits. and just the crazy perfect songs, like they're natural fixtures in the world, like the world would be an absurd place by definition if they didn't exist.
― i am a horse girl (map), Monday, 6 April 2020 02:51 (four years ago) link
My brass band finally finished the tribute that we recorded after he passed, it took awhile to figure out recording in our separate homes and putting a video together:https://www.facebook.com/mamadigdown/videos/3043741569039500/
All proceeds go to the New Orleans Brass Band Musicians Relief Fund:https://digdown.bandcamp.com/track/just-the-two-of-us-2
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
this is solid man, thanks!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
thanks u!
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
The second side of Justments is the best of chill withers
― Heez, Sunday, 5 November 2023 20:38 (six months ago) link
Such a fantastic record. Would like to play Railroad Man out somewhere people might dance to it.
― Yngwie Azalea (stevie), Sunday, 5 November 2023 21:01 (six months ago) link
i def would.
also 'justments is his best album.
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Sunday, 5 November 2023 21:25 (six months ago) link