From Rolling Stone:
[In Bill Withers’ home] on the mantel in a hallway, there is a Best R&B Song award for 1980’s “Just the Two of Us,” from the last time he attended [the Grammy Awards show], three decades ago; it sits next to two other Grammys for 1971’s “Ain’t No Sunshine” and 1972’s “Lean on Me.” A few years after “Two of Us,” Withers became one of the few stars in pop-music history to truly walk away from a lucrative career, entirely of his own volition, and never look back. “These days,” he says, “I wouldn’t know a pop chart from a Pop-Tart.”
Read a fascinating, in-depth article about Bill Withers here.
