Yes it is a rotten instrument all you have to do is hold a guitar and moan about your life on stage and you too can be a lousy singer/songwriter. Sorry sorry sorry, mixing my threads. I was once at a festival and saw a really bad performer and the only reason I could see for her being on stage rather than anybody else in the audience was that she owned the guitar. On the whole though I see interesting people at festivals, she was an exception.

I sing a cappella and play recorder but I am now learning guitar because there are songs that simply sound better with accompianment, I do have to get someone else to play if its a recorder tune though. I've been frightened of trying to learn it because of a lousy experience years ago when I first tried. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that its actually not that difficult to play a simple back up for my singing. Slowly I will improve but I will always be someone who sings first and plays second.