"And, I'll paint your pretty picture with a song" — Bill ... memory of Withers' music is actually a memory of my father. It was a rainy summer afternoon in the mid-1970s, and I know it was ...

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LEAN ON ME") BILL WITHERS: (Singing) Sometimes in our lives, we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise, we know that there's always tomorrow. Lean on me ...

Bill Withers ... the 26 times he sang “I know,” beyond the span of a career. This folk-soul song will outlast us all. As a kid in Slab Fork, W.Va., Withers would go to church with his mother ...