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Check out Bill Withers doc Still Bill at the First Person Fest
posted by Molly Eichel
Bill Withers is probably one of the least polarizing artists of all time. Do you know anyone who reaches for the radio dial when “Lovely Day” or “Ain’t No Sunshine” comes on the radio? Of course you don’t, it’s musical blasphemy. That voice! Those arrangements! But when Withers was at the top of his game, he simply walked away from it all for a quieter, outta-the-spotlight life. On Sunday, November 8 the First Person Festival screens the documentary Still Bill (check out the trailer above) tracks down the reclusive Withers and he opens about why he shunned the limelight and what he plans to do from now. Withers obvs won’t be there (reclusive isn’t a word you throw around lightly), so Johnny Ingram will be there, singing the hits, instead.
While you’re at it, watch Withers receive an achievement award from the R&B Foundation last year at the Kimmel Center, with Dionne Warwick (”Use Me” is my fave Withers song too, Dionne!) introducing a Withers and a medley of his tunes:
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Still Bill, Sun., Nov. 8, 7:30-9:30 p.m., $25-$30, Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St., 267-402-2055, firstpersonarts.org.
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