Still Bill

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Still Bill
Still Bill cover
Studio album by Bill Withers
Released 1972
Genre Rhythm and blues, Soul
Label Sussex Records
Producer Benorce Blackmon, Bill Withers, James Gadson, Melvin Dunlap, Ray Jackson
Professional reviews
Bill Withers chronology
Just As I Am
(1971)
Still Bill
(1972)
Live at Carnegie Hall
(1973)

Still Bill is the second album by Bill Withers, released in 1972 by Sussex Records. It includes two hit singles: "Lean on Me", which is number 205 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and went to number 1 on the Billboard pop and R&B charts in summer of 1972; and "Use Me", which went to number two on the same charts in fall of 1972. The 2003 Columbia Records CD reissue includes two tracks from Withers' 1973 album Live at Carnegie Hall.

[edit] Track listing

All tracks composed by Bill Withers; except where indicated

  1. "Lonely Town, Lonely Street" – 3:42
  2. "Let Me in Your Life" – 2:41
  3. "Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?" (Withers, Stanley McKenny) – 3:13
  4. "Use Me" – 3:45
  5. "Lean on Me" – 4:17
  6. "Kissin' My Love" – 3:49
  7. "I Don't Know" – 3:04
  8. "Another Day to Run" (Withers, Benorce Blackmon) – 4:38
  9. "I Don't Want You on My Mind" – 4:34
  10. "Take It All in and Check It All Out" – 2:42
  11. "Lonely Town, Lonely Street" – 4:06
    Live bonus track on 2003 reissue
  12. "Let Me in Your Life"– 4:16
    Live bonus track on 2003 reissue

[edit] Personnel

  • Bill Withers - guitar, piano, vocals
  • Bobbye Hall - percussion
  • Benorce Blackmon - guitar
  • Melvin Dunlap - bass
  • James Gadson - drums, percussion
  • Raymond Jackson - piano, clarinet, horn & string arrangement