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My favorites change on a regular basis.  I've been on a Jim Croce, John Denver, and Willie Nelson kick lately.  I've been on a Johnny Cash kick for the past 30 years or so.  In no particular order (numbered only for my convenience of knowing how many I've named):

1. Rocky Mountain High
2. Whiskey River
3. Big Wheel
4. Cry, Cry, Cry
5. Get Rhythm
6. (I Fell In Love With a) Roller Derby Queen
7. Box #10
8. Me and Paul
9. Pick Up Your Oars and Row - Randy Travis
10. Sunshine - I can't remember the singer/songwriter, but you know the song, "Sunshine go away today.  I don't feel much like dancing.  Some man's gone, he's trying to run my life.  He don't know what he's asking."
11. Landslide - I'm just having fun learning to play it.
12. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
13. And many more!!!

- Zurf

Good site.  Lot's of those old Country Gospel songs my Momma used to sing.

Back when I was in a big band we played quarterly at a facility that provided long term nursing care to the elderly.  I was about 17 years old at the time, and even now 27 years later I can "see" some of the images in my mind.  Two come to mind most clearly.  One was an elderly lady who was entirely crippled by a stroke except she could move her right hand just enough to control the joystick on an electric wheelchair.  She danced by wiggling her hand while she was sitting there in the chair.  The second one that comes to mind was a bed-ridden woman who had been wheeled down.  After the first couple songs, she called over a candy-striper and asked her to pull the blanket off her feet.  She didn't have the strength to move the blankets herself.  The next song we did she was tapping her feet together.  That's as close as she could get to dancing, but by God she was going to do it and those blankets were getting in the way. 

- Zurf

I'd also recommend practicing the Bm in the meanwhile.  It's in all sorts of songs and will come in handy. 

- Zurf

Inspiring thread.

Go get 'em doc.  Sorry to hear about the crushed nerve.  According to the docs, the nerves in my hands and feet are misplaced, but they're the only nerves I've ever had.  So I may feel things differently from other people, but who really knows how other people feel anyway? 

Anyway, I'd think trying to play left handed would be something you may be able to do.  Alternate instruments are also possible.  I'm not sure if you feel the need to play guitar, or the need to express yourself musically.  Autoharp, mountain dulcimer, hammered dulcimer, fiddle, and cello would be all other ways to express yourself just within the stringed instrument family.  If you're willing to expand, there are many others. 

I hope it all works out for one way or another.  Keep your chins up. 

- Zurf

All right Linusguitar!  Good for you.  Thanks Guitarpix for the chance, and Merry Christmas to you.

- Zurf

1. I prefer to get the audience drunk.  That way, I can keep my mind sharp and continue to play while they get drunk and I begin to sound a whole lot better.

2. Macallan 18 year.  For a less expensive elixir, try Jefferson's small batch bourbon or Elijah Craig 18 year old bourbon. 

- Zurf

Fuggetaboutit.

Short answer: You did not waste your time. 

Long answer: I've got a buddy who has three solo albums out and has been playing guitar and writing songs for twenty years now.  His opinion on barre chords is that they're something the electric players use.  No B's and no F's in any of his songs.  Now, some other buddies of mine who are professionals in Nashville and who I had in my truck to take them fishing before they played a gig heard the other buddies album I was playing and THEY said (between laughing at the lyrics of songs like Pistol Don, an alcoholic gunslinger cowboy - "Drink all night, Pistol Don" or a song about Little Georgie a midget fortune teller who escapes from prison titled "Small Medium at Large"), "He's a pretty good picker.  If he were cleaned up in a studio with the same equipment the big boys use, he'd sound better than most of the guys playing on the circuit right now." 

So, if it's important for you to play with barre chords, and there's a very good argument that it ought to be, you should learn barre chords.  However, you can play songs, write songs, and be a "pretty good picker" in the minds of Nashville pros without ever learning them. 

- Zurf

Well, we all have said that we would kick the poo out of something, but now your son has gone ahead and done it. 

- Zurf

There's things I'd do and there's things I wouldn't do.  Roofing at crazy heights and coal mining under the ocean count as two of the latter.  Everyone's got his or her own window on the world. 

- Zurf

There's a place in the Outer Banks of North Carolina where they do an introduction to hang-gliding class on a humongous sand dune.  There's constant wind, and if you wipe out it's in deep, soft sand.  Tough to get hurt.  I wouldn't jump off a huge cliff on the first run.  Well, actually I would.  The first time I ever rapelled, it was on a 230ft cliff that required a kick off and a rapid descent into a cave about 2/3 down.  Kind of stupid, but I did have fun. 

Scuba diving scares the snot out of me.  Wouldn't do it.  Well, maybe I would...