Bill Withers: The Complete Sussex And Columbia Albums auf 9 CDs

The Complete Sussex and Columbia Albums feiert einen großen amerikanischen Künstler und seine zeitlosen Songs.

Das CD-Set enthält neun Alben zwischen 1971 und 1985, alle anhand der Original-Analog-Tapes vom Grammy-prämierten Toningenieur Mark Wilder remastert. Schon seine ersten beiden Alben Just as I Am und Still Bill waren dank "Ain't No Sunshine" und "Lean on Me" ein unglaublicher Erfolg. Die beiden Singles verkauften sich jeweils über eine Million Mal.

Auf der Box sind sämtliche Klassiker des Sängers versammelt, der seit 2005 Mitglied der Songwriters Hall of Fame ist, darunter "Ain't No Sunshine", "Grandma's Hands", "Hope She'll Be Happier", "Lean on Me", "Use Me", "Who Is He (And What Is He to You?)", "I Can't Write Lefthanded" und "Lovely Day".

Product Information

Bill Withers – The Complete Sussex And Columbia Albums was compiled by Leo Sacks. All music has been newly mastered from the original analog tapes by Sony Senior Mastering Engineer Mark Wilder, recipient of seven Grammy Award® nominations and three Grammy Awards® in his nearly 25 years at Sony.

Inside the box set, the nine albums are each packaged in a replica mini-LP sleeve reproducing that LP's original front and back cover artwork. The accompanying booklet includes complete discographical information for each album, along with a personal introduction to the box set written by Bill Withers. In the case of Bill's debut album, 1971's Just As I Am, an essay is included that he wrote for a 2005 CD reissue on Legacy. Complete notes are also included that were originally written for various LPs at the time of their release, notably Live At Carnegie Hall, +'Justments, Making Music, and Naked & Warm.

The new 1, 500-word essay, "Hello Like Before," that is the centerpiece of the booklet, was written by Michael Eric Dyson, a professor of sociology at Georgetown University and a Political Analyst on MSNBC. Named by Ebony magazine as one of the 100 most influential black Americans, Dyson received the American Book Award for Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and The Color of Disaster. He is also the author of Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur (2001); I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King (2000, winner of an NAACP Image Award), and the best-selling Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye (2004).

Three-time Grammy Award®-winner Bill Withers established his reputation at the very onset of his career in 1971 and '72, when his string of consecutive hits on the indie Sussex Records label dominated the Pop and R&B charts and became American standards. "Ain't No Sunshine," "Grandma's Hands," "Lean On Me," and "Use Me" are inscribed in our collective musical psyche, and have turned into cultural touchstones in the four decades since they were produced.

(Legacy Records)