You're listening to sound opinions and later in the show will review Phoebe Bridger's new album, Punisher.

She was on the show a couple of years ago playing songs from her debut Stranger in the Alps,

and since then she's been everywhere.

First with the group Boy Genius with Lucy Dacus and Julian Baker,

then with Better Oblivion Community Center,

a collaboration with her and Connor Oberst of bright eyes, but that's all later in the show.

First, a classic album dissection, we're going to dig deep into Bill Withers live at Carnegie Hall first released in 1973.

Sometimes in our life,

we all have pain we all have sorrow

Greg we have been talking about doing a classic album dissection of Bill Withers live at Carnegie Hall for some time.

Unfortunately, Bill passed on on March 30th at the age of 81 of cardiovascular

disease. We are overdue to dive into this classic album.

Yeah, there's no doubt about it.

He made many fine records in the early 70s at the start of his career, but I think the signature record is Bill Withers

live at Carnegie Hall which was released in April of 1973, Jim. And to me if you want a

one-stop shopping of what what Bill Withers was all about this is the

record for you I also think it's one of the greatest live albums ever made forget

artist forget genre forget about era you know this is one of those records that holds up over decades.

Oh, absolutely, and I have you to thank because I had my obligatory Bill Withers Greatest Dance Collection, and that was what my Withers Greatest Hits Collection and that was what my Withers

Collection was and then you kept drumming into me the greatness of this album. I'm an anti-live album generally speaking But what a fascinating story let's start with who

this guy was. Bill Withers born on the 4th of July how much more American can you get 1938 in West Virginia where he grows up?

As a young teen, a middle teen, he enters the U.S. Navy, spends almost a decade working as an aircraft mechanic.

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