For this week’s Throwback Thursday we head back to 1972 for the Bill Withers classic “Use Me” off of his album Still Bill. I’m not sure when I first stumbled upon this song but it has been a favorite of mine for years and I never seem to get sick of it.
Outside of the soul and voice of Bill Withers, this track has a funky beat (with a tasty loose high-hat) and what Rolling Stone once called a “pimp-strut organ riff” that keeps your head bobbing.
Bill Withers “Use Me”
I remember seeing Alicia Keys and Rob Thomas cover this song live at a VH1 Save the Music event and was impressed with their rendition so I included the clip below as well as a version done by D’Angelo and David Sanborn. Enjoy!
