I'm a songwriter and guitarist recording at the back of the house, not too far from the washer & dryer. My song productions range from simple voice and acoustic guitar to full-blown electric guitar, bass and drums “band” arrangements, with the occasional mandolin, bouzouki, keyboard, hand-percussion and cat noises thrown in to the mix. So far, I've been playing all the instruments myself, more out of necessity than anything else. I like the do-it-yourself ethic a lot - why pay a recording studio tens of thousands of dollars to record a CD that no one will hear, when you can record it at home for free? DIY worked for William Blake, didn't it? By the way, I don't wish to sound like I'm knocking recording studios - having learned about the recording process, I have tremendous respect and admiration for audio engineers. I'd love to show up at a good studio with a great band, and have someone else do all the hard work of recording, mixing and mastering. And have someone else pay for it, too. Writing the songs is the easy part... I think all of my songs work reasonably well with just a voice and an acoustic guitar - they are almost always written on acoustic guitar - so I've gone with the folk-rock genre, but I find the whole genre problem difficult to figure out. I have a terrible time classifying everything in my CD collection, let alone classifying myself. All you really need to know - I love to play the guitar and to write songs and I do the best that I can in front of a microphone.