lyricist

Instead, it was filled with quieter, stripped-down melodies that allowed Swift’s talents as a lyricist to shine.

“I Am Easy to Find” was the first National record to decenter Berninger, also the band’s primary lyricist, by featuring several female singers including Kate Stables, Mina Tindle, Sharon Van Etten and Gail Ann Dorsey, David Bowie’s longtime bassist.

Lyricist E. Y. “Yip” Harburg was as provocative as Hammerstein, though with a much less earnest, more whimsical sensibility.

One of the many pleasures of the book is to see the lyricist frolic in another form.