I've been learning/playing instruments for the past 2 or 3 years, getting serious about songwriting in the last two. I like to try and put layers of meaning, feeling, instrumentation, and influence into all my work. My favorite genres are probably folk, for it's highly personal style, allowing for very plaintive wordplay, which really steers the rest of the song, and blues, for it's rudiments were rent from emotion and pain, not technicality or musicianship, just raw 'sad'. Not sure if that c...