Definitions
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- noun A person who both
sings andcomposes , especially if they perform their own compositions.
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Examples
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The title "singer-songwriter" brings to mind a multitude of horrors: James Blunt cooing about beauty, James Morrison crooning about "something", Jack Johnson wooing ladies with banana pancakes.
Benjamin Francis Leftwich: Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm – review 2011
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The title "singer-songwriter" brings to mind a multitude of horrors: James Blunt cooing about beauty, James Morrison crooning about "something", Jack Johnson wooing ladies with banana pancakes.
Benjamin Francis Leftwich: Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm – review 2011
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More interesting is her emergence amid a new wave of goth-pop stars - among them Canadian band Austra and her upcoming UK tourmate EMA, aka singer-songwriter Erika M Anderson.
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Cash is primarily known as a singer-songwriter; she performs her own songs, and not typically covers.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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Cash is primarily known as a singer-songwriter; she performs her own songs, and not typically covers.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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Cash is primarily known as a singer-songwriter; she performs her own songs, and not typically covers.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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Cash is primarily known as a singer-songwriter; she performs her own songs, and not typically covers.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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Cash is primarily known as a singer-songwriter; she performs her own songs, and not typically covers.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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He smiled, a cowboy hat lending the singer-songwriter a touch of the desperado.
It's Never Too Late to Grate Steve Dollar 2010
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Heart on sleeve, Lissie is a female singer-songwriter, but with all kookiness removed.
This week's new live music Andrew Clements 2010
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