Ha ted, how true, but then, as i recall, in the not too dim and distant past session musicians played on the recordings, the singer sang! and the "band" hardly contributed to the recording. I would do more practice but day job and family come first. I personally don't like singing with instrument accompaniment, I have found very few musicians that can do it well, the tendancy is to drive the singer (mad usually) by gradually speeding up til it becomes impossible to annunciate the lyrics and draw breath! As for arrangements, it works like that for voices, sometimes it gets nailed first time around, some we have worked on and off for six months or so, and all songs are "work in progress". Yes we often "busk it" in a session and sometimes we get some incredible sounds, more often than not though it gets lost in the "choir".