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Last year, UK audiences finally got personally acquainted with this gifted exponent of a soulfulness worthy of Bill Withers, the jazz agility of Kurt Elling, and a distinctive lyricist's identity mixing intimacy and political realism.
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She recalls an old-fashioned quality singer-songwriter like Joni Mitchell or Rosanne Cash, just one who's decided that hip-hop beats, tolerantly and inclusively conceived, are a modern lyricist's most effective delivery system.
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Call it a return to form (with a twist), as there's a sharp lyricist's fervor -- recalling his days as a "true emcee" -- one that was wholly absent from The Eminem Show and Encore (his third and fourth records).
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True, Sinatra is well represented by some gorgeous songs arranged by Gordon Jenkins, Billy May and Nelson Riddle that feature the singer at the height of his vocal prowess, his baritone rich in the mid-range, sultry at its bottom, his articulation of each word and phrase a lyricist's dream realized.
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Can you think of a word that is used so decisively well in a song as to remove if from a good lyricist's vocabulary?
Archive 2007-07-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Later in the year, I had occasion to use the song in a manner more in keeping with the lyricist's apparent intention.
Shut Up And Listen Robert Hunter 2001
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Later in the year, I had occasion to use the song in a manner more in keeping with the lyricist's apparent intention.
Shut Up And Listen Robert Hunter 2001
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Combining the satirist's enthusiasm for punishment, the dramatist's sense of anger as spectacle, and the lyricist's confessional mode and matter, Byron creates poetry to stage his revenge.
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The Fall, a diverse and experimental extension of their lyricist's vision seemingly in an unstoppable decline, the worry remained that irreparable damage had been done to the creativity.
FallNet - Riot Grrls fronted by fit'n'working again bloke on loudhailer 1998
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But it is not only the paucity of rhymes that sours the lyricist's life.
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