Jerry -- Perhaps I should explain in a bit more detail. Waht i mean by holding up Stan rogers as the standard, is more involved in the obvious care which he took with each song. he obviously knew, for example , the value of the rewrite. one does not produce a song like "Delivery Delayed" in one fell swoop. "Second Effort" is, now that I think about it, probably a better example of what I mean. Its subject matter is one we've heard a million times; facing the possibility of going home a failure. Yet nowher in it iws there anything which resembles a cliche' (a trap into which it would be very easy to fall). you know that my song do not, in any manner resemble, stylistically speaking, those of Stan Rogers. By holding him as my standard what i'm trying to achieve is to try to similarly move people and give a similar amount of care toward matching the right word to the right thought and, if at all possible, surprising listeners just a bit along the way.