This guitar suits all those styles nicely, and I will use it for everything I play, except slide. I bought it to suppliment my Route 101 Solimar. In other words, a guitar that could do the few things my Solimar can't do well. I love its tone for most things. This telecaster's job is to be nasty.
Pickups are pretty darned noisy.
They have the right sound, but the static sucks and output is too weak. To alleviate this problem I'll be replacing the neck with a Seymour Duncan humbucker for some nice fat raunchiness, and a noiseless vintage stack in the bridge to preserve the tele twang and punch. Guitar sustains forever. Sounds great, other than the line noise. Has plenty of potential Other than that, it's a standard tele.