>As much as I stress "songwriting" it's not necessarily about
>having a lot of varied words... it's more about just the
>grooves and riffs and everything else having some sort of
>structure and direction... which this has.
true. as i read over that, i realised that songwriting is obviously more than lyrics or conventional structure as long as there is A structure. this song actually has a chorus...it's just well hidden as a non-flashy refrain.

>I just don't care as much for all kinds of meandering jamming
>and grooving (though I do like that sometimes too... just
>don't "respect" it as much, I guess!)
ok i can dig that.

>Joy Nwosu does have some other stuff... I'll rip one of her
>albums for you. I think you'd probably appreciate Mary Afi
>Usua (another classically-trained singer who incidentally made
>a great album with Dan Satch Joseph)
PLEASE send me both. had to say it twice...lol