Getting Cosy  "Recently," says singer Cosy Sheridan, "I've
attempted to look at songwriting sort of as a public service."
This comment doesn't mean that Sheridan's recordings lack an
individual perspective; in fact, she's one of music's more
distinctive tunesmiths. However, she feels that many of her
earliest compositions were little more than attempts to tackle
her own crises and concerns--which she's trying to avoid these
days. According to her, "You need to be able to say something to
your audience for a song to be of any lasting value to anyone
other than your therapist." She describes her current writing
process as "more like working out my own personal view of the
world. I could call it my spiritual belief system, but that
might be a little too vague."  Fortunately for Sheridan's
listeners, the ways she expresses her philosophies are
frequently a hoot. For example, "The Mustang Ranch" (from One
Sure Thing, her new release on Waterbug Records) finds the
singer making a rather immodest proposal about how