Jack Goodstein from Blogcritics says: His songs are sometimes highly personal, whether he seems to be looking back on his West Virginia boyhood in “Grandma’s Hands,” or looking for love in the lyrical “Let Me in Your Life.” He can create a persona to voice his concerns with greater social issues as he does with the alcoholic speaker in the grimly tragic “Better Off Dead,” or the disabled veteran in “I Can’t Write Left-Handed.” But of course it is love in all its forms (especially unrequited, the theme of all the great soulful blues) that is his most common theme.The Essential Bill Withers is a 34-track anthology that was released on Augand it features all of Withers' notable singles, along with other highlights from the singer's albums for the Sussex and Columbia labels, from 1971's Just as I Am through 1985's Watching You Watching Me and including 'Ain't No Sunshine', 'Lean on Me', 'Use Me', 'Lovely Day', and 'The Same Love That Made Me Laugh'.
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