SM: Yeah, and old school songwriters that I've met within Nashville say the exact same thing.
"Vic was an old-school songwriter who believed in melody and hummability," Burlingame said.
At a time when old-school songwriters capable of producing pop vignettes are largely considered to be the stuff of the Antiques Roadshow, Blur are more important than ever.
His new songs hold more than a hint of the Texas school of songwriters led by Guy Clark, with their eye on the landscape and their homespun hymns, but instead of cozy Texas domesticity or humor, Mr. Dylan brings portents of ruin.
Nor does she carry herself with the earnest self-regard and faux humility of the new-school singer-songwriters.
The members of this trio based in Lancaster, Pa., have been playing together since high school; the main songwriters, Karen and Don Peris, are married.
Straight from the school of breathy singer-songwriters comes Mary Lou Lord, who will appear at the Internet Cafe in Red Bank on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Her voice has the same whispery quality as Suzanne Vega's and Juliana Hatfield's, but she doesn't quite reach their lyrical bite or musical innovation.
Fifteen years ago, Mr. Babits said, he was a songwriter in graduate school for social work.
Robert Jones, (flourished 1597 1615) songwriter of the school of English lutenists that flourished at the turn of the 17th century.
1597 - 1615 Robert Jones, (flourished 1597 1615) songwriter of the school of English lutenists that flourished at the turn of the 17th century.
Hyman Zaritsky, as he then was, went to Manhattan local schools, and then to West Virginia University and Brooklyn Law School - as so many other songwriters did.
