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Just as I Am (Bill Withers album)

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Released
  
May 1971

Just As I Am (1971)
  
Still Bill (1972)

Release date
  
May 1971

Label
  
Sussex

Length
  
35:46

Artist
  
Bill Withers

Producer
  
Booker T. Jones

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Recorded
  
1971 at Sunset Sound Wally Heider Studios (Hollywood, California)

Genres
  
Soul music, Rhythm and blues, Smooth soul

Similar
  
Bill Withers albums, Soul music albums

Just As I Am is the debut studio album of American soul musician Bill Withers, released in 1971 on Sussex Records. The album features the hit single "Ain't No Sunshine", which was ranked at number 280 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Booker T. Jones produced, arranged, and played keyboards on Just As I Am. The album was later reissued as a dual disc with a second disc featuring all the tracks in 5.1 Surround Sound.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Bill Withers; except where indicated.

Personnel

  • Bill Withers – guitar, vocals
  • Stephen Stills – guitar
  • Chris Ethridge - bass
  • Jim Keltner – drums
  • Booker T. Jones – guitar, keyboards
  • Bobbye Hall Porter – percussion
  • Donald "Duck" Dunn - bass
  • Al Jackson, Jr. – drums

    • Later Samples

  • "Ain't No Sunshine"
  • "Soulja's Story" by 2Pac from the album 2Pacalypse Now
  • "No Sunshine" by DMX
  • "No Sunshine" by Kid Frost
  • "Grandma's Hands"
  • "No Diggity" by Blackstreet

    • Songs

    1Harlem3:23
    2Ain’t No Sunshine - Single Version2:05
    3Grandma's Hand's2:01

    References

    Just as I Am (Bill Withers album) Wikipedia
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