[also replied below to your response to my post, it has been taking me too ridiculously longer to send e-mail than to get it - will fix thatASAP, for now I am replying to yours here]
I am not a professional or semi-professional vocalist and never was, have taken some voice lessons some time ago, have been told by different people that I have a nice voice, you can be the judge of that
I have some lyrics+words books to practice or figure out sound of player/s+singer with known stuff first, I can sing other stuff too but only have books of: The Doors, Joni Mitchell, Simon & Garfunkel, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Janis Joplin
[I know Billy Joel's stuff, not Bruce Springsteen though, I know, how un-Jersey of me!]
I have a decent ear but don't read music any more [I had played a few instruments one after the other when I was a kid but I didn't practice enough...]
I have been writing both rhyming and nonrhyming poetry on and off since I was 8, and can pretty easily rewrite words of known songs too [=same melody, different words], but don't write lyrics at all
