I too once belived in the heavier gauge string as a superior tone source. However, thanks to the graciousness of B.B. King I learned that a lighter-gauge string offers superior playing comfort ... try it, you may like it.

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

Water doesn't hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you're fine.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.