Bill Withers Never Needed Music — But We Needed His

When the soul legend walked away from the industry, he left us with lessons as well as art

Scott Woods
LEVEL
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7 min readApr 6, 2020

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Bill Withers poses for a portrait against a brick wall circa 1973.
Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Stringer/Getty Images

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“You gonna tell me the history of the blues? I am the goddamn blues. Look at me. Shit

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Scott Woods
LEVEL
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Writer and poet holding down Columbus, Ohio