No right answers to this one, but I am eager to hear opinions. A televised concert segment and a short PM conversation here led me to ask you all about writing solo vs collaboration.

Such a matter of opinion, but as soon as I hear "collaboration" my mind thinks "I am not good enough to write quality songs myself so I have to lean on someone else who will write the song and let me put my name on it."

Sports fans here will remember Elgin Baylor, one of the early great NBA players. He was a high flyer who set the stage for Dr J, then MJ, now LeBron, playing high above the rim and floating through the air.

There is also a lesser known player named Rod Hundley who was about the 10th man on the bench for every team he played on. One of his running gags is to talk about the night he and Baylor teamed up to score 73 points in a game. The joke is that Baylor had 72 and he had a free throw,

That story kind of sums up how I think when I hear "collaborate".

There is someone on Soundcloud who is constantly posting songs where she goes on and on about collaborating with "another writer". Well, the "other writer" writes the song, records it, writes the lyrics, sends it over once with him singing it and once without and she sings his words onto the naked version on a 2 track. And calls that collaborating.

So show of hands. How many of you prefer to drive the whole way yourself?

(Oh, PS. She can't sing. But she's pretty and the guys like her.)