I know there are many people here who play some instrument or another to accompany themselves while they sing. And I do too. But I find it detracts from what I can do with my voice if I am concentrating on my guitar.

I once talked with Tom Lewis about it and he said he had tried but found the same problem so he laid the instruments aside for largely unaccompanied singing. He does occasionally use a ukelele and an accordian for some of his songs. But he told me was told by someone who knows him and cares for him that the instruments interfered with his performance more than they added to it.

So here are my questions:

Who out there sings solo unaccompanied?

Why?

What do you sing?

What is your opinion of this kind of performance?