seems pointless

There is, in _seems pointless_ , a reverence for song that is, in some ways, "oldschool." The songs here come from the grand singer-songwriter tradition, wherein the songs, if they had been recorded many decades ago, might have been one person with an acoustic guitar. But after Todd Rundgren and Emmitt Rhodes and Paul McCartney, et al. showed that a collection of songs can be written/performed/recorded by the songwriter alone, one person with an acoustic guitar (which can still be an outstanding approach, of course) became less the default approach.