![]() His down-home eloquence could mask the version of Withers we seldom saw. He could be a little scary, as in “Better Off Dead,” in which he stages a suicide by gunfire, and brutally funny: on the 1973 album Live at Carnegie Hall, he praises his grandmother’s church by telling the audience, “It wasn’t one of them sad churches where they sing them songs that make you wish you could just hurry up and die and get it over with.” There is the true-blue friend of “Lean on Me” the happy cuckold of “Use Me” the country boy of “Grandma’s Hands,” the song on which Withers most sounds like he hails from a town called Slab Fork, West Virginia. There are many versions of Bill Withers, the steady, complicated singer who died last week from a heart attack, at age 81. ![]()
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