and Don introduced me to Paul, who's also one of my favourite songwriters and says "have you heard Wes's stuff, he's a really great songwriter".  I nearly shat myself, that was incredible and one of my fondest moments, more than having the bells and whistles around the celebrity status. That moment was just so raw and one my greatest moments to actually be recognized as a songwriter.  Don's such a great guy and a great guy to work with and the song that we wrote together, Lost is one of my favourite songs to ever play. How have you found the response to Buffalo thus far, primarily I guess from your existing fan base? Very positive actually, there's always going to be haters, I realize that, but I think people are actually relieved for me is what the general consensus is.  People have come up to me even through that whole time on Idol and touring with Mossy for 4 months all over Australia, each time I met someone after the show, they would be saying "we think you're great, but we just want to be hearing more and more of your stuff".  They'd searched on the net and heard what I'd done before Idol and wanted to hear more and more of that.  But now it's so easy to do and I'm independent and people are responding to the honest approach I'm taking, it's coming straight from my heart and not from my head and over thinking things based