Example sentences for: songwriters

How can you use “songwriters” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For most songwriters after "After The Ball," for everyone from Irving Berlin to Carole King, lyric-writing was an exercise in compression.

  • Catherine Irwin and Janet Beveridge Bean are the singers and songwriters of Freakwater, whose recent album, Old Paint (Thrill Jockey), is "alternative" by process of elimination, not by design.

  • The WSJ "California" page reports that the state legislature is likely to pass a bill the would prevent writers, filmmakers, and songwriters from making unauthorized use of the images of dead people.

  • In rock 'n' roll's first decade, songwriters like Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly established its song forms and subject matter: the lives, loves, and modest rebellions of newly enfranchised teens.

  • In the '70s, blues rock (a modern white version of the blues) transformed itself into heavy metal , typified by Led Zeppelin . Singer/songwriters like James Taylor recorded easy-listening confessionals, and country-rockers like the Eagles institutionalized The Byrds' country experiments (and adumbrated the slick contemporary country sound of Nashville stars like Garth Brooks ). Funk ( James Brown , Sly and the Family Stone, Funkedelic) made soul wilder and looser, and disco combined the celebration of Eros and dancing with beats derived from funk, Latin music, and German experimentalists like Kraftwerk.


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