tunesmith

Written with the participation of the artist himself — Newman sat for hours of interviews and connected Hilburn with friends, family members and collaborators — the bio tracks Newman’s winding path from teenage pop tunesmith to ’70s cult-fave singer-songwriter to Oscar-winning film-music maestro.

Next week, he’s poised to claim his fourth No. 1 album with “We Don’t Trust You,” his 17-track collaboration with the woozy tunesmith Future.

You think of him as being a tunesmith, but he basically takes a variations approach, developing a gesture in this march atmosphere.

But this music’s composer, Nicholas Britell, isn’t a mere tunesmith, and he doesn’t stop there.

A perennial critics’ favorite who’s been nominated for 10 Grammys, Clark is “universally revered” among her fellow country songwriters, according to Jessie Jo Dillon, one such tunesmith who’s written for George Strait and Maren Morris and who co-wrote five tracks on Clark’s new album.