{"id":7449,"date":"2022-12-10T12:56:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T12:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=7449"},"modified":"2022-12-18T11:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T11:22:48","slug":"music-bill-withers-bbc-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=7449","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Bill Withers, BBC, 1973"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ly7Ti0lY8_I?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More musical magic from the early \u201870s. Just sit back and dig it! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Setlist<br \/><br \/>00:00 Ain't no Sunshine<br \/>03:18 Lonely Town, Lonely Street<br \/>09:14 Grandma's Hands<br \/>11:47 Use Me<br \/>16:06 Let Me In Your Life<br \/>20:20 Lean On Me<br \/>24:43 Harlem<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>As so many folk note, in relation to Bill Withers, he exemplifies the truth that, in the right hands, a little can really go a long way. Obviously he has a terrific voice. Although it\u2019s not the type of voice you would see winning The Voice (and thank goodness!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"938\" height=\"970\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_5612.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7491\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_5612.jpg 938w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_5612-290x300.jpg 290w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_5612-768x794.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Might have to get me one of these\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As a guitarist, piano player and songwriter, he\u2019s a little bit like Tom Waits, only even more basic. Like Waits, he\u2019s not a virtuoso on these two composers\u2019 tools. But he is most very definitely an artist, wringing a lot of feeling from a limited technique. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a child he had suffered with a stutter. It\u2019s hard to credit that, watching this intimate soulful concert, where he seems so natural and at ease, despite playing &#8211; as he alludes to early on in the set &#8211; with a partial scratch\/pick-up band. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Personnel<br \/><br \/>Bill Withers - Vocals, rhythm guitar, piano<br \/>John Barnes - Piano<br \/>Snuffy Walden - Guitar<br \/>Melvin Dunlap - Bass<br \/>Fred Casey - Drums<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More musical magic from the early \u201870s. Just sit back and dig it! Setlist00:00 Ain&#8217;t no Sunshine03:18 Lonely Town, Lonely Street09:14 Grandma&#8217;s Hands11:47 Use Me16:06 Let Me In Your Life20:20 Lean On Me24:43 Harlem As so many folk note, in relation to Bill Withers, he exemplifies the truth that, in the right hands, a little &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=7449\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Bill Withers, BBC, 1973&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-1W9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7518,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7449\/revisions\/7518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}