Bill Withers is sadly no longer with us but his music lives on. The man himself was a famously down to earth character who shunned the usual rigmarole of the music industry and kept himself to himself., One day, when he fettle had said enough with his music, he quit and was never persuaded back into a studio. By then he already had a rarefied back catalogue packed with hits that will long stay part of the popular canon. Plenty of them are on this new, Sony-assembled collection from the tender 'Grandma's Hands' to the ubiquitous 'Lovely Day' via personal favourite 'Use Me.' Essential stuff from the great man.