tunesmith

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But with its intricate weave of samples and interpolations, it’s also structurally daring in a way that obviously triggered the academy’s suspicions about “real music” — suspicions foreshadowed in the Grammys’ pretelevised ceremony when Beyoncé’s longtime collaborator The-Dream lost the songwriter of the year award to Tobias Jesso Jr., a more conventional tunesmith known for his work with Adele and Harry Styles.

From Los Angeles Times

Back in England, John was a skilled, hardworking piano player and tunesmith who had tried for years to gain a foothold in the business, with middling results.

From Los Angeles Times

But a new collection, “Words & Music: May 1965,” the first of a planned archival series from Light in the Attic Records, captures this perpetually evolving, consistently transgressive artist in the unlikeliest guise of all: folkie tunesmith.

From Washington Post

On April 30, the Washington Times printed the sheet music to a song by local tunesmith Abraham Gamse that it said was “Dedicated to Those to Whom the Knickerbocker Disaster Brought Sorrow.”

From Washington Post

There is a confidence and an unpretentious ease in these songs, but they behave like the work of a tunesmith.

From New York Times