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A band has a guest and plays a song the guest wrote. Is it original or cover?

by jMyles on 4/6/25, 12:28 AM with 12 comments

• by jMyles on 4/6/25, 12:33 AM

  We're working on a parser for our band's setlists, and we want it to be compatible (and eventually, to be able to cross-reference included songs with) setlists from Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, Widespread Panic, Travelin' McCourys, Leftover Salmon, Billy Strings, etc.

  We have run into this question already a few times: when we have a guest, and we play an original written by that guest, how is it best reflected in the setlist?

• by beardyw on 4/6/25, 6:33 AM

  The problem is with musical taxonomy.