Bill Withers
The Leanin' Tower of Soulful Simplicity
I write songs for regular folks — and I mean it.
I didn't grow up dreaming of stages or fame — I grew up in a mining town with dirt under my nails and sweat on my back. I built airplane toilets before I built songs, and maybe that's why mine always sound like they fit. I sing about what we all feel — loneliness, love, the hand you lean on when yours is tired. I left the business before it could leave me, but I never left the people who made the songs mean something.
What I'm Into: my old guitar, the smell of coal dust, Lean on Me at the corner bar, a quiet porch at dusk, telling it plain
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