How I wrote “Hippie Hair”—a different kind of pandemic song, about growing locks that recalled my original music heroes.

A look inside the the John Lennon Songwriting Contest winner “Fly,” from its beginnings in the fiddle tune “Sally Goodin” through its evolution onstage.

Learn how to use the partial capo to sound like a one-man bluegrass band. Play the John Lennon Songwriting Contest winner “Fly.”

A 50th anniversary tribute to the Grateful Dead’s American Beauty and Workingman’s Dead albums.