Bill Withers’ most famous hits tend to include some kind of unique production touch that sets them apart. Think about that burbling bass line in “Use Me” or the endlessly repeated “I know” refrain in ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. "Lean On Me" is ...

When Bill Withers wrote “Lean on Me” in 1972, toying around on a small piano with only the phrase ‘lean on me’ to guide him, he never could have expected the song — about a rural man’s loneliness in ...

There's a moment in Still Bill, the great 2009 documentary about the long-retired soul legend Bill Withers, where Withers returns to Slab Fork, the tiny West Virginia mining town where he was born.