OMG – a COWRITE?  I have so little time, and I live in a new city now!   aaarrrggghhh!  so I posted right away and as luck would have it, Patricia Loranger answered the call – She came over, and brought biscuits, perfect!  I had the word Rattlesnake, she had an idea of a really nasty man who turned himself around – from there we went to people who are hard on the outside and soft on the inside, with a street-philosophy.  We began writing about the beginning of the nasty guy’s love affair with his wife, and then we turned it around and made the hard-on-the outside person the woman.  Patricia could not make the recording session, so once again I worked with John Jackson, who is a great guitar player, but in particular, a wicked slide player.  I tend to write songs with added bars and turnarounds and stops and starts, and John is getting used to my idiosyncracies, I think!  It was a tough session – I was finalizing rhythmic and structure things as we were putting down drum loops, but we got it.  The third line of the chorus Patricia and I had not quite finished ironing out – we had started with “I am your mistake to make – the rattlesnake”, but she didn’t like that, so I gave her a bunch of other ideas, one of the ones she liked was “Brave is what it takes to face” – in the end, I did three lead vocals, those two, and the third “Fear is just another taste”.  So we have a choice going forward.  In any case, good cowrite, met a new writer in my hood, done!