songsmith

• “By his early 20s, the skinny lad with long brown hair became a worldwide sensation --- the master songsmith behind a little British band known as The Beatles.”

  The Washington Post: Strawberry Fields Forever

• “Memory Tapes is the province of Dayve Hawk, a 30-year-old songsmith who bubbled up from rural New Jersey a couple years ago with a sound that mixes melodies for the ages with intimations of murky weirdness.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Continental, Experimental

• “Think about The Beach Boys and their crazed father Murry Wilson, that manic drive of his and the trauma he inflicted particularly on his most talented son, pop songsmith extraordinaire Brian Wilson.”

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• “Recorded between 1962 and 1964, they offer a portrait of the young Dylan as prolific songsmith, spraying out numbers that changed pop history such as "The Times They Are a-Changin '", alongside passing cold war satires such as "Talkin 'John Birch Paranoid Blues", all delivered in Bob's biting, mid-Western burr.”

  The Guardian: Bob Dylan: The Witmark Demos – review

• “If you missed Ted Leo's show in Baltimore last night, Midnight Sun has a good interview with the punk rock songsmith.”

  The Washington Post: Remembering John Lennon; Willie Nelson charged with a misdemeanor; T.I. is blogging from jail

• “Rich Cronin, the bleach-tipped "Summer Girls" songsmith from the late 1990s boy band "LFO," has died.”

  The Washington Post: Rich Cronin, LFO "Summer Girls" Writer, Dies

• “Quincy Jones took interest in the young songsmith and published some of his titles.”

  The Huffington Post: Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 142

• “We're not sure if Mehran is, like Rosenberg/Pink, a Zappa fan, but there is a sense of a playful, even transgressive, mind at work behind the heavenly hooks and catchy choruses, as though Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle had a sideline as a Brill Building songsmith it also reminds you that Lou Reed briefly worked at Pickwick.”

  The Guardian: Outer Limits Recordings (No 904)

• “Having forged an almost instant intimacy with the 43-year-old songsmith, Staples was ready to get to work.”

  The Washington Post: Mavis Staple teams with Wilco frontman for album 'You Are Not Alone'

• “Singer/songsmith Cass McCombs was born in 1977 in California.”

  Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Deserves To Be Heard, Valentine's Day Edition

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