Bill Withers.

Knowing Artone Label Group’s expertise on producing high quality coloured vinyl, Sony Legacy has agreed to approve coloured pressings of the full Bill Withers catalog and grant us worldwide distribution rights.

What & why?

Bill Withers was a modest, gentle, and yet towering musical figure responsible for some of the most important, universally known soul hits ever written. It’s no wonder that “Just the Two of Us” and “Ain’t No Sunshine” won him two Grammy awards and undoubtedly played a huge role in getting him inducted into both the Songwriters and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has been a part of Music On Vinyl since the early days; Just As I Am, Still Bill, and Live At Carnegie Hall were reissued in 2012, Menagerie in 2013, +‘Justments in 2014, and Making Music and Naked & Warm in 2017. Combined, Music On Vinyl already sold more than 100,000 copies of these titles, all on regular black vinyl. Until now. 

Knowing Artone Label Group’s expertise with producing high quality coloured vinyl, Sony Legacy has agreed to approve coloured pressings of the full Bill Withers catalog and grant us worldwide distribution rights. This means that alongside to the seven titles already in our catalog, we will also produce reissues of Withers’ last two albums ‘Bout Love and Watching You Watching Me. Both titles have never been reissued on vinyl since their respective releases in 1978 and 1985.

Sadly passing away in 2020 at the age of 81, he has touched a lot of people with his work. To commemorate this, we decided to include new liner notes with each release written by various prominent musical, cultural, and literary voices. Throughout the whole project we are working  closely with Withers’ estate and Sony Legacy. From the packaging to the liner notes and the marketing process, everything is done in conjunction with them, ensuring top quality reissues of which everybody can be proud.

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Over 100,000 Bill Withers albums sold by Music On Vinyl
First time on colored vinyl
Full cooperation of the Bill Withers estate

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Sony Legacy and Music On Vinyl

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Music On Vinyl

Music On Vinyl

Muisc On Vinyl handles the physical release of the full Bill Withers catalog, in conjunction with the estate and licensor Sony Legacy. Every release is done by a single product manager to retain consistency throughout the whole series. This means that the product manager also acted as a liaison between the marketing and design department.

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Bertus

Bertus

Production

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Record Industry and StyleMathôt

Record Industry and StyleMathôt

Sales & distribution

Global Reach, Local Knowledge

Bertus

Bertus

Bertus took care of distributing the vinyl throughout Europe and was the main hub for worldwide distribution.

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