How did this tune, written by someone whose music I thought I didn’t like, make its way into my brain? At the time, I was not yet initiated into the vast and wonderful world of Garcia’s music. This friend remarked that the guitar line in a song was remarkably similar to the end of “Rubin and Cherise,” a song off of the Jerry Garcia Band’s 1978 album Cats Under The Stars. I was mixing a solo record a few years back with an engineer friend of mine. What’s even worse is when the record in question goes through the entire process - mixing, mastering, pressing to vinyl - before the people involved in the recording realize that a song is basically a retooled “Magic Man.” The absolute worst-case scenario is when it’s a song you’ve never heard before. A songwriter’s worst fear is to have been struck by a powerful bolt of a song only to find out that the melody was accidentally lifted from something that appeared on their Spotify Weekly playlist the previous week. The line between inspiration and plagiarism is incredibly thin.
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