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Here's some food for thought appended to our recent post about Still Bill, the new documentary film looking at the extraordinary life and career of Bill Withers:

"I was a night DJ doing Quiet Storm from the mid-'80s to the mid-'90s (and have all of Bill's albums). Documentaries like this are like water in the desert. The U.S.A. needs to get back to the basics of good heart & soul music and away from exploitation & buffoonery. The kids now around age 30 and younger are hungry for what's "real" instead of the cotton-candy they've settled for these last 15 years. And so IT'S TIME. Let us ALL take in Still Bill and get back our spark—and with that our *dignity* and turn our backs forever on the near-former ghetto imagery of the mainstream."

—Posted by DJ Chris Carlisle, Sept. 29