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It is, and when done well, it sounds really good. 

To be harmonically correct, you wouldn't use a capo except for the IV and V of the key.  That is, you could do it with a cappo at the 4th or 5th frets and the same chord shapes.

Here's why:

If you build triads on every note of the major scale, you get new chords made up of the same notes.

For the II, the chords are minor, as they are for the III and the VI.  For the IV and V, the chords are major, which is why a cappo works there.  You're still in be playing major chords for the harmony. 

So for E major, as in the example,

You could play the following chords in perfect harmony.

E
F#minor 
G#minor
Amajor
Bmajor
C#minor
D#dim

Disco and reggae are both straight up rock and roll rhythms based on the blues.  Disco is all about the electronics needed to get the wah wah sound, and reggae is all about syncopated bass walks and rhythms.

Great band.  Been around for a while but only started to get national prominence a few years ago.

Get "Elephant" if you want their most famousest stuff.  It's all good, though.

Jack White also does a couple of straight up old time country blues acts for the soundtrack to the movie "Cold Mountain."

Barre's make your life easier man.  Most people don't understand that until they actually play it.

Well done!

Well, sorta.  Sometimes.

Unless you're playing in a bluegrass band.  Or a gypsy swing band.  Or any of those other musical styles that don't use percussion at all.

No.  We do Folsom Prison Blues and Don't Bring Your Guns to Town.  We also cover "Ain't Glad I'm Leaving" by Justin Townes Earle, and I'm about to foist "Ghost of Virginia" on them.

I play both.  The reason you don't see too many singer + bass players is that most singers start off solo with a guitar.  But that's not to say they aren't out there.  I sing.  So do Geddy Lee and Les Claypool.  Now if I could only play like them.

I don't know what "under rated" is supposed to mean.  As noted, you often don't notice it in the track, but you sure as heck notice it when it's not in the track.

Austin as awesome.  As is Memphis.  I haven't been to Nashville, but I'd imagine it's pretty great, too.

Heart
Jimmi Hendrix
The Whalers
The Postal Service
Sleater-Kinney
Death Cab for Cutie (even though they suck)
Candlebox
Foo Fighters
Robert Cray
Hole
The Kingsmen
The Melvins
The Supersuckers
Queensryche
Mudhoney
The Posies
Reuel Lubag Trio (I only mention this because I used to date a woman that dated their drummer.)
Screaming Trees

And let us not forget,

The Presidents of the United States of America

Seattle has had a fantastic music scene for a really long time, and it hasn't changed a bit.   There are a ton of really good bands here.

Speaking of songs about Trains (which are made up of cars) Justin Townes Earle's "Ghost of Virginia" is a fantastic song.

That is all.

Well, I wouldn't recommend messing about with alternate tunings until you're proficient with standard tuning.   I'm not sure what a "blues" tuning equates to, but generally speaking, bottleneck, Dobro, and other slide players will tune to a completely open tuning.   That means that the guitar is tuned so that striking a completely open stroke across the neck will render a major chord.

For example, to tune to open D would be D-A-D-F♯-A-D.