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

  • 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?

  • The problem is with musical taxonomy.

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