Re: Billy Bragg experience

On 25 Nov 2009, "Lumpy" <lumpy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
alt.guitar.beginner:

RichL wrote:
Impossible! Didn't we decide in another thread that you can't play
whole songs by yourself on an electric, especially if you first
learned to play on an electric?

I think we discovered there were eleven people in history
that have done it. This thread has revealed three.

Marshall Crenshaw. Garnet Rogers. Joni Mitchell. Elvis Costello.

Why did this subject ever become controversial?
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