Ain't No Sunshine (Horace Andy)
Song
Bill Withers' original was an aching acoustic soul masterpiece, but Horace Andy and producer Coxsone Dodd bathed it in Kingston echo and shimmering mystery. Andy's quavering, androgynous tenor lends the lyric a ghost-like fragility, while the heavy Studio One rhythm section introduces a slow, deliberate steppers bounce that feels infinitely deeper and more desolate.