That’s often the first song that children learn to play because they don’t have to change fingers – you just put your fingers in one position and go up and down the keyboard.
So I bought a little piano and I was sitting there just running my fingers up and down the piano. This was my second album, so I could afford to buy myself a little Wurlitzer electric piano. Here is a video of Withers singing it on the BBC in 1974:īill Withers talked to about writing the tune: “I made the case that it would make a better national anthem than our current terrible one.”
“I consider it to be the best American song recorded in the past hundred or so years,” Hein writes. I loved this note from Ethan Hein about the final day of his songwriting course, which ended with “ a spontaneous singalong” of “ Lean on Me” by Bill Withers. “We talk of poetry in such an abstract way because most of us are bad poets.” -Nietzsche
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