Not sure I entirely agree with you Easy Rider. You said "but it takes a lot more work and equipment to make an electric guitar sound good. With an acoustic guitar, it's a lot simpler. It's just your fingers and the guitar."

Perhaps clarification is needed on this point.

To my way of thinking, it requires much more strength (and work) with the fretting hand, to get a good sound out of an acoustic (assuming one is doing more than just strumming a few chords ---I'm talking more about fingerpicking and flatpicking), whereas any electric I've ever played had ridiculously light strings on it, very low action, and required almost a feather light touch to barre or play well...anything on it, making the process relatively effortless. You also don't have to play particulary clean on an electric to get a decent sound, thanks to pickup, effects pedals and amplifier characteristics.

Granted electric especially played in the styles of the artists you mentioned, is an ENTIRELY different approach and to me, is a completely separate and unique instrument apart from a steel string acoustic. I'd love to be able to play electric blues and jazz but I fear doing so, and the ensuing amount of practise time, would somehow be detrimental to my acoustic playing.

Every pure electric player/friend I've known, has had a difficult time getting a good sound out of an acoustic...at least from what I have personally seen and heard.

I liked the analogy comparing an acoustic piano to an organ...in the same way one compares an electric to an acoustic.