Bill Withers Live At Carnegie Hall - I Can’t Write Left-Handed is is possibly the best live recording ever.
I’ve transcribed his monologue before the song:
We recorded this song on october the 6th, since then the war has been declared over. If you’re like me you’re remember it like anyone remembers any war: one big drag. A lot of people write songs about wars and government, various social things. But I think about young guys who where like I was when I was young. I had no more idea about any government or political things or anything. And I think about those kinda young guys now, who all of a sudden—somebody comes up, and they’re very law abiding, so if somebody says go they don’t ask any questions, they just go. And I can remember not too long ago seeing a young guy with his right arm gone—Just got back—and I asked him how he was doing. He said he was doing alright now but he had thought he was going to die. He said getting shot at didn’t bother him, it was getting shot that shook him up. And I tried to put myself in his position. Maybe he cried, maybe he said… I can’t write left handed…
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