JamBase — Listen to Bill Withers cover Little Jimmy Dickens, which is his first solo song released since 1985. more info

Stereogum — Bill Withers is one of the greatest singers and songwriters in the history of soul music, but he's been effectively retired ever since the release of his 1985 album Watching You Watching Me. He never performs, and he only makes public appearances ver... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Sit down, David Hepworth. The year of the first Glastonbury Festival, of Jim Morrison's death, The Concert for Bangladesh, the Montreux Casino fire that inspired Smoke On The Water and... Dave & Ansell Collins - Double BarrelNiney The Observer - ... more info

Stereogum — Justin Vernon, Hiss Golden Messenger, Natalie Prass, Phil Cook, Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood, Hurray For The Riff Raff's Alynda Segarra, and more formed a one-off supergroup called Grandma's Hands Band to play a set of Bill Withers covers at the... more info

Stereogum — Bill Withers cut one single in 1967 as his (and anybody's) sole release for the one-and-done label Lotus: his own uptempo if downbeat composition "Three Nights And A Morning," backed with a Motown-esque version of Irving Berlin's "What'll I Do." Desp... more info

Chicago Tribune — On his first album a few years ago, Michael Kiwanuka was the musical equivalent of comfort food, a folk-soul throwback, a feint echo of Bill Withers or Terry Callier. It was pleasant enough, but there wasn’t a sense of anything more at stake than n... more info

Stereogum — All the celebrities packed into LA's Dolby Theater are probably already hammered, but Justin Timberlake just opened up the official Oscar festivities. Timberlake performed his Trolls track "Can't Stop The Feeling," which is one of the nominees for Be... more info

Core News — “The Don’s selections cross time, space and genre and include Crucial Vinyl from Bill Withers. Each week, as well as blending key new releases with classics from the UK, USA, Jamaica, Africa and beyond, Don highlights a piece of Crucial Vinyl –... more info

Chicago Tribune — On Michael Kiwanuka's 2012 debut album, "Home Again," the U.K. singer receded into the nostalgic haze of his influences. He came across as an earnest disciple of Bill Withers, Terry Callier and 1960s-'70s folk-soul, a retro artist without the feel fo... more info

NME — The singer recorded the track for the soundtrack of an Amazon series more info