Returning in the US after the European tour, Doro was put in contact with Jack Ponti, a mainstream songwriter and producer from New Jersey, to work on her next two albums.
In an unusual move for a country album, songs by Hoagy Carmichael, Irving Berlin, and other mainstream popular songwriters made up his Stardust (1978), which eventually sold more than five million copies in the United States.
Then again, a lot of these songs have the warm, easy-listening appeal of the hippest mainstream 70s songwriters, up to and including Nilsson, while reclaiming aspects of the cheesiest.
The team has worked with various American artists and received mainstream awards including the Songwriters of the Year accolade at the 2007 ASCAP/PRS Awards and the 2009 ASCAP Pop Songwriters of the Year.
This singer-songwriter's mainstream profile dimmed, but she continues to release albums with a low-key, confessional spark.
This singer-songwriter's mainstream profile dimmed with the mid-decade decline of alt-rock, but she continues to release albums with a low-key, confessional spark.
This show from Detroit indie singer-songwriter turned mainstream crossover success Sufjan Stevens conjures memories, if any may have attended both events, of Leonard Cohen's enforced return from touring retirement on this side of the Atlantic at Manchester Opera House in 2008.
Who's Tyler Ward?'" His career as a singer-songwriter, peddling mainstream acoustic pop-rock, was going nowhere until four years ago: he was "playing venues to 10 people and half of those were my family members".
This in spite of the band being hailed in some quarters as the solitary, doughty representatives of good old indie on the BBC Sound of 2016 longlist, the only exemplars of the stuff that once constituted the weekly music press's lifeblood, amid a selection of rappers, singer-songwriters and mainstream pop R&B.
She walks a fine line between artful singer-songwriter production and mainstream flair, and she nails that balance throughout the EP.
