Ain't No Sunshine: The Smooth Soul and Rough Edges of Bill Withers:

Bill Withers entered the music fray as hardly an afterthought, rewrote the rules for a decade, earned a fortune, then, unable to square himself with the requisites of the music business, took his leave. When he died in 2019 at eighty-one, he was every bit the mystery he was when he started. Born and raised in Slab Fork, West Virginia-his father a coal miner, his childhood spent in a pit of racism, and a shy kid who was asthmatic and stuttered-Withers had every reason to say, "People ask wha...