{"id":10528,"date":"2020-04-04T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10528"},"modified":"2020-04-05T10:58:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T17:58:29","slug":"bill-withers-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/04\/bill-withers-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Withers Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/music\/bill-withers\/bill-withers-dead-at-81\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from PASTE (opens in a new tab)\">from PASTE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Legendary Soul Singer Bill Withers Dead at 81<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/writers?name=lizzie+manno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Lizzie Manno<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bill Withers - Grandma&#039;s Hands\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qv5pagal-ls?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Legendary soul singer\/songwriter Bill Withers died on Monday (March 30) due to heart complications, per a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/e19138ee60f29a319e45bcfba3e39331\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>&nbsp;provided to the Associated Press. He was best known for hits like \u201cLean On Me,\u201d \u201cAin\u2019t No Sunshine,\u201d \u201cUse Me,\u201d \u201cLovely Day\u201d and more. Withers was a three-time Grammy winner and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are devastated by the loss of our beloved, devoted husband and father,\u201d his family wrote in a statement. \u201cA solitary man with a heart driven to connect to the world at large, with his poetry and music, he spoke honestly to people and connected them to each other. As private a life as he lived close to intimate family and friends, his music forever belongs to the world. In this difficult time, we pray his music offers comfort and entertainment as fans hold tight to loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Withers was born in Slab Fork, West Virginia in 1938 and was the youngest of six children. He joined the Navy at age 17, spending nine years there, and later moved to Los Angeles after he was discharged. After signing a record contract, he released his first album,\u00a0<em>Just As I Am<\/em>, in 1971, which contained one of his greatest songs\u2014\u201cAin\u2019t No Sunshine\u201d\u2014and was produced by another soul giant, Booker T. Jones (of Booker T. &amp; the M.G.\u2019s). A year later, he released his second album,\u00a0<em>Still Bill<\/em>, which contained lasting hits like \u201cLean On Me\u201d and \u201cUse Me\u201d and became his highest charting album, reaching number four on the Billboard 200. Withers continued to record throughout the 1970s, but by the mid-1980s, he stepped away from music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/music\/bill-withers\/bill-withers-dead-at-81\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at PASTE (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at PASTE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from PASTE Legendary Soul Singer Bill Withers Dead at 81 By\u00a0Lizzie Manno Legendary soul singer\/songwriter Bill Withers died on Monday (March 30) due to heart complications, per a&nbsp;statement&nbsp;provided to the Associated Press. He was best known for hits like \u201cLean On Me,\u201d \u201cAin\u2019t No Sunshine,\u201d \u201cUse Me,\u201d \u201cLovely Day\u201d and more. Withers was a three-time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}