I don’t envy anybody who decided to put out an album within the 12 months succeeding Brat Summer, Manning Fireworks Fall, and “Not Like Us” — especially considering that 2025, broadly speaking, did ...

honoring her with every note. Whether it's a community, like Bill Withers sings about in this song, or a mother figure, everyone needs someone to lean on. Raising kids isn't always smooth sailing ...

During a recent sold-out concert at the Ryman Auditorium, Chase Matthew called out his "momma and mamaw" to perform a gospel-inspired take on Bill Withers' "Lean on Me." The moment gave insight ...

and then, after wins, dance together to Bill Withers’s “Lovely Day ... on a grand piano at midfield, tucked into the first notes of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” We’d made it through ...

In a 2004 interview with Songfacts, Withers revealed that he wrote the tune on a Wurlitzer piano ... Still Bill with members of his touring band. In addition, to “Lean on Me,” the album ...

Bill Withers’ lyrics are poetic but worded so simply, that there’s no doubt about what he wanted to say. One of his goals was to write lines that people would be able to understand and ...

Written by the band’s bassist John Deacon — who also provides those Wurlitzer piano notes ... By Me serve as anthemic monuments to childhood camaraderie. Lean On Me by Bill Withers ...

Bill Withers, who wrote and sang a string of soulful songs in the 1970s that have stood the test of time, including “ Lean On Me, “ “Lovely Day” and “Ain’t No Sunshine,” has died ...

Bill Withers’s cause of death has been revealed. The “Lean on Me” singer died on 30 March at the age of 81 after suffering a “cardiopulmonary arrest,” or an arrest resulting in absence of cardiac and ...

“Lean On Me,” from the 1972 album Still Bill, is the only Bill Withers song that ever went ... He hit some big notes, and he conveyed both the beauty and the gravity of the original.

My Morning Jacket‘s Jim James appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday night to perform a tribute to Bill Withers (who ... best-known songs, “Lean on Me.” ...