{"id":122603,"date":"2021-11-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/?p=122603"},"modified":"2023-05-31T19:59:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T02:59:22","slug":"video-lesson-inside-the-soulful-acoustic-guitar-style-of-bill-withers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/video-lesson-inside-the-soulful-acoustic-guitar-style-of-bill-withers\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Lesson: Inside the Soulful Acoustic Guitar Style of Bill Withers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An immersion in Bill Withers\u2019 music brings powerful lessons for any guitar-playing songwriter, especially about the value of directness. This lesson goes inside some of Withers\u2019 best songs\u2014especially from his first few albums, when his own guitar was most prominent\u2014to reveal the understated accompaniment style that carries them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":122233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"This lesson goes inside some of Bill Withers\u2019 best songs\u2014especially from his first few albums to reveal the understated accompaniment style that carries them. ","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1152],"tags":[1304,1117],"ppma_author":[1559],"class_list":["post-122603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-play-like","tag-may-june-2021","tag-play-guitar-like-the-great-songwriters","post_format-post-format-video"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dpa-picture-alliance-slash-Alamy-Stock-Photo-Bill-Withers-KK9X2K.jpg?fit=750%2C486&ssl=1","authors":[{"term_id":1559,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"jeffrey-pepper-rodgers","display_name":"Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/About-Us-8.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/About-Us-8.jpg"},"user_url":"https:\/\/www.jeffreypepperrodgers.com\/","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":"Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, founding editor of Acoustic Guitar<\/em>, is a grand prize winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and author of The Complete Singer-Songwriter<\/em><\/a>, Beyond Strumming<\/em><\/a>, and other books and videos for musicians. In addition to his ongoing work with AG<\/em>, he offers live workshops for guitarists and songwriters, plus video lessons, song charts, and tab, on Patreon<\/a>.\r\n"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138124,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122603\/revisions\/138124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122603"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=122603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}