It's funny--some songs just seem to implant themselves in my brain in only a couple of hearings; others I copy down with my CD player on repeat, listening over and over again until I have it all on paper, and then I still have to play and sing it again and again, day after day, until I think I have it--and then, if I try to perform it, I forget key phrases, so I go back to playing it over and over ogain...

Right now I'm working on a song Barbara posted a couple of weeks ago, "Overflowing Catbox Blues," and--although I'd never heard it performed--a melody grabbed onto it as I was first reading the words in Barbara's post. I haven't quite memorized it all, but I did play it for the Poodle Players (the name that won't die) tonight, and they got a big kick out of it. --seed