SINGER/SONGWRITER

SINGER/SONGWRITER It is so common today for pop artists to perform their own material that it's easy to forget that just a few decades ago this was the exception rather than the rule. The revolution that brought forth the singer/songwriter began in the early 1960s and came to its full flowering in the following decade. In the early days of American popular music, from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century, songwriters were professionals who created hit songs; singers were…