Most of her songwriting happens in the living room, which has the most space and light.
"My songwriting ability probably started with my blind father and intellectually disabled sister, " he said.
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Thornewill's piano work and spirited songwriting marry brilliantly against Tommy Siegel's grainy guitar style.
There's an accessibility to his songwriting that's also welcoming and joyous and perfect for animation.
Compared with traditional songwriting, the Basement Jaxx approach to creating music might appear to work backward.
Even a songwriting performer of Duke Ellington's stature and endurance saw his hit-smithing fizzle.
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It's been riddled with ruthlessness and treacherous relationships, which find their way into his songwriting.
Lennon's former songwriting partner Paul McCartney maintains an even tighter grip on his catalog.
Messersmith started recording his own work after auditing a songwriting course at North Central University in Minneapolis.
He skipped college to pursue a professional songwriting career in Southern California, but never produced a hit.
"His music is unmatched in terms of great songwriting, " said Verdine White of Earth, Wind and Fire.
Elements of post rock, garage and synth-pop round out their music which relies heavily on narrative songwriting.
But Diddley said that while rhythm was important, the secret to good songwriting lay in something else.
He was half of The Beatles' songwriting team and helped push the quartet to superstardom in the 1960s.
Also unique was that each songwriting partner, apparently from the very beginning, often wrote entire songs by himself.
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Their shows were a boozy, honky-tonk circus featuring great songwriting, wonderful musical improvisation and, best of all, slapstick comedy.
Burke's rich songwriting weaves classic western themes of life and death, honor, and morality throughout the record's narrative songs.
He also disputed some of Robertson's songwriting credits, though Robertson questioned Helm's version.
Lyrically, this is a simple ditty keyed to 17 title repetitions, but its emotional complexity is how rock 'n' roll songwriting works.
When Alex Soria died in December 2004, the Montreal musician left behind a legacy of superb songwriting eclipsed by poor production.
So although she's best known for her original songwriting, the jazz vocalist and pianist was well-suited to make a record of Cole Porter songs.
When folk songwriting legend Woody Guthrie died in 1967, he left behind more than 3, 000 songs, most of them unpublished and unrecorded.
Hart and Gershwin, after all, are credited with loosening up songwriting conventions and helping pioneer a more colloquial, natural-sounding approach to lyrics.
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Ria attended a guitar workshop with Young Guns but said the most valuable part of the day was getting tips on songwriting.
After graduating from college, Kellogg honed his personal and thoughtful songwriting.
Her later albums provided consistent evidence that she is a vocalist of the first order, though her songwriting is not always as engaged.
The precise issue addressed by Oxenford is the threatened imposition of performance royalties on an industry that has heretofore paid only songwriting royalties.
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"I think the songwriting style of (Buddy Holly's) period was superior, " Ward says in an interview with All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen.
After studying poetry and literature at Tufts University, he moved to Nashville to translate his knack for songwriting into the country music business.
Sonic Youth continued to refine its use of noise in an increasingly pop-driven songwriting context, greatly expanding its commercial success in the '90s.
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