Someone mentioned bad singer songwriters, and on occasion, the guitar seems to encourage people to be creative who really shouldn't be doing it--

It strikes me to that songs written on the guitar (not classical pieces, mind you, but "popular" songs--especially singer/songwriter type things) tend to be rather weak in terms of melody--many songwriters tend to put together the words first and then play chords along with it--which may work very well, but as I said, the melodies often won't hold your interest on their own.

As an aside--I am familiar with classical guitar music, as well as lots of other classical music, because I a)like it, an b)studied composition theory at music school, so I am not speaking out of ignorance--as to the comments about Gamble Rogers, I can actually Travis-pick whatever mean little melody you might want to hear--and hereby swear--it is not that easy to learn to do it, and even when you can do it, your are pretty much stuck with the same underlying rhythm, which is great when you want to play"The Great "Speckled Bird" but becomes somewhat strained if you want to move into "Stella By Starlight"--

As to the snide remarks about dance music--dance music is really central to classical music, and it has been bread and butter music for folk musicians since forever--where would we play if people didn't need music for square and contra dancing, clogging, Horas, kolos, polkas, swing, etc etc?