Just in case you don’t subscribe to our comments RSS feed (WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!?), we just wanted to let you know that the good people at First Person Arts posted that there will be a free screening of Still Bill, the doc about legendary, reclusive soul singer Bill Withers, tonight at Drexel at 7 p.m. Afterward, there will be a Q&A with filmmakers Damani Baker and Alex Vlack.
Our own Josh Middleton caught Still Bill this weekend and gushed about it: “It made me giggle, it made me sob and it inspired me to want to be better at what I do.” Here’s the trailer just in case you forgot:
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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TONIGHT: Free screening of Still Bill
