I’ve literally played about 60 years. I play blues almost exclusively, even some jazz/blues. Tunes like ‘Chitlins Con Carne’, ‘Work Song’, ‘Back at the Chicken Shack’, ‘Loan Me a Dime’ and ‘Moaning’. I play either a Yamaha Strat knockoff. I call it my Stratohama. By the way, Yamaha makes really good guitars for cheap. My other is an Ibanez hollow body ‘jazz’ guitar. But I’ve always thought that I was missing something. John Scofield said that he learned from figuring out how to play tunes, then playing them. That’s me. No formal training. So I am here to maybe fill in some of the gaps in my blue playing. Lastly, I became a blues man in 1969. I was listening to the Beatles and the Kinks until then. But in that year I heard B.B. King doing ‘The Thrill is Gone’ And then I heard The Allman
Bros. ‘At Fillmore East.’ That’s what spun my head around, it was hello blues and goodbye pop music.
Hi Chuck, welcome to JG, sounds like your an experience blues player. I’ve been messing around on guitars since ‘69 when I was 11. But like many stopped and started several times due to life commitments, After +20 year break just done the JG Blues Immersion course (BLIM) it’s hard but great and improved my playing, now trying to build on it, and re doing aspects,
There are lots of older guitarists on here and it’s a friendly and helpful community. You should post a video of you playing so we can hear some blues.
Welcome to the community Chuck.
What’s up Chuck?
Hi Chuck,
Welcome here and I wish you a lot of fun 
Greetings,Rogier
Welcome to the community Chuck!
Hi Chuck, welcome to the community.
Hi Chuck. Welcome to the community. Nice intro, I have a Yamaha strat too. I don’t think I will be able to pick it up now without thinking it:s a Stratohama.
Best wishes,
Alan
Hi Chuck, welcome to the Community.
Welcome to the community Chuck!
Welcome aboard
Hi Chuck! Welcome to the community!
Hi Chuck
Nice to meet you 
Looking foward to hearing more from you 
Hi Chuck. Welcome to the community. I’m learning to play Melissa by the Allman Brothers. I’ve been a fan since the 70’s.
Hello Chuck.
Welcome to JustinGuitar and this fantastic community. There a whole host of golden oldies over in the dog house.
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Hello Chuck and welcome to our Community! Blues is one of Justin’s favourite genres so you’re going to find a lot of it over here!
This is so much valuable! I hope you’ll tell us more about the connection with the guitar you built through the years and share some of your music too!