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 ...

The FADER’s “Songs You Need” are the tracks we can’t stop playing. Check back every day for new music and follow along on our Spotify playlist. Max Winter's “Lean Into Me” is an sparse and tender ...

Bill Withers got a late start. He was nearing 30 when he began writing songs on a cheap guitar between shifts at an aircraft-parts factory. “I figured out that you didn’t need to be a virtuoso to ...

Crank it up! Steven Van Zandt, the Jersey icon and dual consiglieri to Bruce Springsteen and Tony Soprano, has used his clout at SiriusXM to convince the chief content officer Scott Greenstein to play ...