BILL WITHERS
Sussex
The Complete And Columbia Albums SONY LEGACY
8/10
WHEN Bill Withers sat down to play his songs for Booker T Jones at the Winding Way Ranch in Malibu one day in 1970, Jones had got the studio and the band booked by the time the unknown singer was halfway through his second tune. That was “Grandma’s Hands”, a tender elegy to a woman who had played tambourine in church on Sunday mornings. The first song had been “Ain’t No Sunshine”. Withers was already 32 years
