Hey Chanteyranger, you noticed that quirk in Charley's personnality, a bit to modest. He also did wonders with the Yankzee River Shanty. What he's calling his "musical arrangements" others might call tune crafting, writting music or setting poems into songs. I like your comparision to the cook & his ingredients, the notes & melodies are floating about waiting for someone like Charlie who has the gift for arranging them into a masterpiece. Gezzz, Charlie's gonna be, rightfully & noblely red faced. So Charlie what ya gotta do now is go into Spec's by your lonesome (you don't want your wife to see this) & get one of the regulars to get up off their duff & slap that modest looking facial arrangement off your gob & thank him for doing such a good job of it, then tune up your banjo & sing a couple of your songs & you'll be drinking for free all night long. Really if you go into that leery looking bar looking to get slapped you may walk out disappointed & don't pay attention to that man behind the curtain or to any of your 1st impressions. I came upon this place 20? yrs ago with RiGGy (say hi for me if you meet him, great guy & a hell've a singer & a musician) we were prodded into (I think that's how it went, ask RiGGy) taking out our instruments & playing, I think we ended up drinking for nothing & all the cheese we could eat, on the house. That bartender's dead & gone now but I'm sure there's someone just as nice behind the bar now. Have a great time & see ya when you get back, minus the facial finger imprints. Oh, be carefull the Swans & all those other Catters, they'll treat you so well & then soon they'll be convincing & your wife that you need to live out. They're a slick crowd don't pay them any mind either. Barry