I think Doctor John said pretty-much what I think. I go to concerts mostly to hear songs that I may be able to sing myself. The singer-songwriters that I usually don't care for are those who write songs that only they can sing. Some songwriters, like Dick Gaughan and Archie Fisher and Gordon Bok and Bill Staines, always write songs that everyone can sing. Others, like Greg Brown and John Prine, write a mix - and in the case of Brown and Prine, it's a great mix. Others, like perhaps Lucy Kaplansky or Greg Morrissey and John Gorka, write almost completely for their own singing - lost of people like them, but I have a hard time with them.
-Joe Offer-