โAinโt No Sunshineโ โ
April 4, 2020 – โI lived a good portion of my life before I started to play music,โ Withers recalled in โStill Bill,โ the 2009 documentary about his life and career. He was in his late-20s when, as he told Rolling Stone, he bought a secondhand guitar after seeing R&B singer Lou Rawls perform at an Oakland, Calif., bar. But it wasnโt necessarily musical inspiration that motivated the former Navy aircraft mechanicโs purchase: the bar manager had groused that Rawls was late despite being set to earn $2,000 from the gig. When Rawls finally arrived, women flocked to him. โI was making $3 an hour, looking for friendly women, but nobody found me interesting,โ…
