Bill Withers

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bill-withers-obituary-977929/

 

I love Questlove’s comment that “Bill Withers is the closest thing black people have to a Bruce Springsteen.”

 

Favorite songs:

The Same Love That Made Me Laugh 

Ain’t No Sunshine

Lovely Day

Who Is He (And What Is He To You)?

Use Me

Kissing My Love

Lean On Me

Harlem

Grandma’s Hands

I Can't Write Left Handed

A short playlist for April 1

Fools Fall In Love – The Drifters 

Why Do Fools Fall In Love – Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers 

Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things) – Martha & The Vandellas 

I Fooled You This Time – Gene Chandler 

Only A Fool Would Say That – Steely Dan 

A few songs for our time

Splendid Isolation – Warren Zevon 

Don’t Stand So Close To Me – The Police 

No Particular Place To Go – Chuck Berry 

Keep Your Distance – Richard Thompson 

In My Room – The Beach Boys 

Paradise For One – James Hunter Six 

Lyric Of The Day #6 (March 29, 2020)

I'm a man of means by no means

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHtoayjVLAY

 

A classic line from Roger Miller’s best-known song (and biggest hit). Also one of the greatest songs of all time with finger-snapping.

Lyric Of The Day #5 (March 29, 2020)

I get slandered, libeled,

I hear words I never heard in the Bible

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFOi0pfroiU

 

Nice pair of lines from the great Paul Simon.