I’m a pretty big fan of Bill Withers. Live At Carnegie Hall belongs on any Top 10 list of albums.

I ran across this quote in the September 2011 issue of the UK magazine The Word. Regarding Withers, David Hepworth writes “Withers is an exceptional artist. No obvious influences and no musical descendants either.”

I read that line and immediately thought it outrageous but then couldn’t come up with any obvious influence or any musical descendants either.

Can you?

Or can you think of another artist who meets those criteria?