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Just As I Am Episode 3: Bill Withers' Just as I Am Was Populist Soul for Complicated Times
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Just As I Am Episode 3: Bill Withers' Just as I Am Was Populist Soul for Complicated Times
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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
May 27, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Amir “Questlove” Thompson, in Rolling Stone in 2015, called Bill Withers the “last African-American Everyman … the closest thing black people have to a Bruce Springsteen.”
Withers’ Just As I Am was once referred to as “middlebrow soul.” That is to say, it was easily accessible at a time when music was becoming increasingly complex.
In this episode, we find out what it means to be a populist musician when popular music was quickly turning its eye to more complicated compositions.
Withers’ Just As I Am was once referred to as “middlebrow soul.” That is to say, it was easily accessible at a time when music was becoming increasingly complex.
In this episode, we find out what it means to be a populist musician when popular music was quickly turning its eye to more complicated compositions.
Released:
May 27, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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