About This Song
About "Ain't No Sunshine" by Joe Cocker
Cocker takes Bill Withers' lament and injects it with blue-eyed-soul grit, the silence between notes heavier than any lyric. His rasp is a weathered hand gripping a barstool—'Ain't No Sunshine' becomes a confession of dependency, the groove's warmth a cruel contrast to the emptiness invoked.
