they named it rock and roll.
Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing 'Cause everything's gonna be alright
1973 
2010 Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing 0:30 is a calm hand on your shoulder when the world is shaking. Not a solution. A presence. Someone who will not panic even when the way is unclear.
That steadiness is rare. Knowing somebody is there who refuses to break makes the hard parts bearable. The worry shrinks. That presence becomes its own kind of answer when no answers exist.
Anytime we have a date
Is he hers or is he not? Louis Jordan asks playfully. Confusion after someone leaves. Am I still loved? Big band swing made everybody dance to a question nobody wanted to answer. Some questions are better sung than asked directly with a straight face.
Morgan Freeman's Joe Clark made 'Lean on Me' the anthem of Eastside High -- a song about community, delivered by Bill Withers with the steady certainty of a man who'd been carrying people his whole life. Lean on me when you're not strong. The film is about a principal who demanded community from students who'd never been asked before.
Lean on me. The school did. Image Credits
1,414 artist portraits across 5 genres (Rock, Jazz, Soul, Blues, Folk). 1,363 sourced from Wikipedia (Creative Commons / Public Domain), 50 from Deezer (promotional artwork).
