Music teacher, Ethan Hein, names Lean On Me as "the best American song recorded in the past hundred or so years". He goes so far as to suggest that "it would make a better national anthem than our current terrible one".
Last week Austin Kleon posted an article about how Bill Withers wrote the song, a process that started when he got a new electric piano, a process that included recalling the hospitality folks shared easily in his Alabama hometown.
Article: Lean On Me
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