With the best singer/songwriters, the little things get you. That's the joy of a Gordon Lightfoot song. And that's the draw of the aching chord that implies regret in a James Taylor tune; the glimmer of hope in those sustained notes at the end of a Jackson Browne ballad; the portrait of a sweet-faced girl who withstands her mother's demons in Ron Sexsmith's lyrics. The beauty's in the details.