Dr. Quentin Young

February, 1973

The Bill Withers Method for making it doesn't exactly conform to showbiz legend. It was while he was working for Lockheed Aircraft in California--after a lifetime's worth of odd jobs and nine years in the Navy--that the Slab Fork, West Virginia, native checked out some singers at local clubs, decided that their jobs looked better than his, and that he could do it as well as they. So he began writing tunes, saved his bread, rented a studio and hired musicians to cut some demos (after reading the...