""If you persist in using the title "singer/songwriter" to describe that very narrow band of introspective creation, then you are lumping all the very fine singer/songwriters in every other branch and root of music into that category.

If you think that makes any kind of sense, you are as big a fool as you try to appear.

By all means put that kind of music into a space of its own, but (excuse the shout) FIND ANOTHER NAME FOR IT.

It isn't about the method of creation, it's about the emotions.

Why not call it autobiographical music, which would be closer, and at least wouldn't debase and devalue the work of thousands who both write and perform with their gaze far removed from their navels.

In fact Conrad, I'm inclined to think that your gaze needs adjusting to encompass something outside of your own navel, as all your threads have a "whining about the way things are because the way things are doesn't suit you" quality.

Don T.