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Songwriting collaboration with ChatGPT
Introducing “Don’t Let AI Write Your Stinking Song”: a co-writing experiment with ChatGPT.
The interviewer gets interviewed
Read a deep-dive interview/profile on my path as a musician, writer, and editor.
Inside the song: “Hippie Hair (for the First Time)”
How I wrote “Hippie Hair”—a different kind of pandemic song, about growing locks that recalled my original music heroes.
Inside the song: “Fly”
A look inside the the John Lennon Songwriting Contest winner “Fly,” from its beginnings in the fiddle tune “Sally Goodin” through its evolution onstage.
New American Beauties album
A 50th anniversary tribute to the Grateful Dead’s American Beauty and Workingman’s Dead albums.