The fact that Stone had the forethought to see that these people had enough talent, more than enough talent to pull of his vision, what can you say?” They are the quintessential actors of our time. All these people were young, hungry actors at the time and now look at them. “It was some of the hardest work I’ve had to do to date, but think about the people that came out of that movie! Charlie Sheen, Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, Keith David. He initially wanted to be an actor, landing a role in Oliver Stone’s Best Picture winning Vietnam War picture “Platoon” (1986). Ironically, Glover initially didn’t think about pursuing a career in music. It’s the reason I’m a singer, it’s the reason I’m in a band, it’s the reason I love music so much, because of three records on long drives with my parents.” Those three records are the reason why I do what I do. “That was one of the three records we played as we drove … You’d listen to Bill Withers ‘Live at Carnegie Hall,’ Carlos Santana’s ‘Abraxas’ and ‘B*tches Brew’ by Miles Davis. “My parents would take me and my brothers and sisters on road trips, and playing in the car was that record,” Glover said. He worked on the factory line for a long time and he didn’t stop doing it while he was working, while he was still a superstar!”Īs for Glover, he listened to a ton of Bill Withers growing up in Brooklyn in the 1960s and 1970s.
“He had a factory job working on fighter planes. “He’d go on the road and then go back to his job and he kept doing that for over 10 years,” Glover said. That’s right, Withers worked at an airplane parts factory in between music gigs.
“He had the presence of mind to say that this stuff is fleeting, so I’m gonna go on the road, I’m gonna put out these albums, and I’m gonna go back to my factory job and keep working on my off-time.” “For somebody as prolific as Withers, to know that he didn’t start his career until he was 30, that he had a severe stutter, that he had to overcome a severe stage fright ,” Glover said. Navy, where he served for nine years before returning home in 1965 and moving to Los Angeles to pursue a music career in 1967. As soon as he turned 18, he enlisted in the U.S. For it to be so amazingly beautiful, to hear some of these songs, it takes you back to a certain time, but it makes you feel good.”īorn in 1938 in the tiny coal-mining town of Slab Fork, West Virginia, Withers was just 13 years old when his father died. … As a singer-songwriter to play at Carnegie Hall so early in his career is amazing. “It’s really a seminal record,” Glover said. “The music that came out of it - ‘Grandmas’s Hands,’ ‘Lean on Me,’ ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’ - all of these songs are still being played somewhere in the world. Recorded on a rainy Friday night on Oct. 6, 1972, the album was voted one of Rolling Stone magazine’s Top 30 Live Albums of All Time and includes such massive hits as “Lean on Me,” “Use Me” and “Ain’t No Sunshine.” They’ll perform Withers’ legendary “Live at Carnegie Hall” album from start to finish. “It’s just an amazing band of people who have a love of this particular record,” Glover said.
Glover will provide vocals for supergroup The New Stew, including Roosevelt Collier (Lee Boys) on lap/pedal steel, Yonrico Scott (Derek Trucks Band) on percussion, Dave Yoke (Susan Tedeschi Band) on guitar, Jared Stone (Stone’s Stew) on drums and Matt Slocum (Oteil & The Peacemakers) on piano. We’ll hang out before or after - and we’ll talk about it if you like.” “It’s a really intimate setting, the band is really compelling, the music is really good. Now, Corey Glover leads a Bill Withers tribute on Saturday night at Gypsy Sally’s in Georgetown. WASHINGTON - He’s the vibrant frontman for funk-metal icons Living Colour. J| WTOP's Jason Fraley previews Corey Glover at Gypsy Sally's ( Jason Fraley) Business & Finance Click to expand menu.