[mb-users] Singer/songwriter covering their own songs?

[Aaron Cooper]

On 7/11/07, Philip Jägenstedt <philip at foolip.org> wrote:
> Greetings all!
>
> A singer/songwriter composes a song for another artist, which that
> other artist records and releases. Later, the singer/songwriter
> records and releases that same song him/herself. Is this version to be
> considered a cover of the first release?
>
> I think this is a pretty common situation. I'm facing it right now
> with Guang Liang
> (http://musicbrainz.org/artist/1b89c374-e0f1-4aa1-9f08-d56cfdd644f6.html)
> who has re-recorded some of his own songs in this manner.
>
> Should "is a cover of" AR be entered for such tracks? It doesn't fit
> very well what might generally be considered a cover.

I agree.  I don't think the cover AR is appropriate in either
direction.  I think what you'll have to end up doing is just making
sure the composition ARs are correct.

-Aaron