Unless you are a "solo-act" you can never be a "loner."

In today's world, (aside from virtuoso's like John Hartford, that can provide a thumping bass with his left foot, a steel-brush with his right foot, lyrics from his thorax, and guitar treble-bass chords from his digitalae) you MUST have at least another "thine" to thread wolf-worp and entwine.

Commiseration, the whole-being-greater-than-the-parts, homeogysious, Abby Road meets the Sergant.

No "musician" is ever a "loner" they walk in locked-step, (no matter how original they may believe themself to be) to the history and traditions of their equals. "John Cage" may of considered himself original (like Andy W.) however, their deconstruction is easily place in a Germanic root.

You may "think yourself a loner" but a whole cavalcade of ghosts have forged your wake.