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Published: May 27, 2021, 2 p.m.

Amir \u201cQuestlove\u201d Thompson, in Rolling Stone in 2015, called Bill Withers the \u201clast African-American Everyman \u2026 the closest thing black people have to a Bruce Springsteen.\u201d

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Withers\u2019 Just As I Am was once referred to as \u201cmiddlebrow soul.\u201d That is to say, it was easily accessible at a time when music was becoming increasingly complex.

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In this episode, we find out what it means to be a populist musician when popular music was quickly turning its eye to more complicated compositions.

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