Singer song-whiners is a cute name. Would you call Bill Staines a singer-songwhiner? Or Gordon Bok? Why is it that people so grossly ove-generalize songwriters as being navel-gazers or whiners? I guess it beats thinking. Is Sy Kahn a navel-gazer or whiner? Or Stan Rogers? There are so many recently written great songs that are neither navel-gazing or whining that it's just intellectual laziness to characterize all songwiters that way.

Jerry .. neither whining nor navel-gazing