Saw this last night on a facebook add, got to thinking man I wish I could play like that which would be cool and all but I grew up listening to singer songwriters and always wanted to be a wordsmith. 2 of the best in my opinion John Prine and Nanci Griffith "both recently passed away" kept the music simple and captivated you with the lyrics. Prine used common chords and just moved the capo around although he had a unique finger picking style. Nanci played in a lot of open tunings where 1, 2 or no fretted strings made a chord but they both wrote songs I only hope to emulate. They didn't have radio songs but long careers, I've been listening to them since high school along with Dylan.