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MUSIC: Country singer Audrey Auld, who moved back to Stinson Beach from Nashville last year, has released a new album, “Hey, Warden,” featuring lyrics written by inmates at San Quentin State Prison written during workshops she held during the last several years.   David Briggs

In 2007, country singer and songwriter Audrey Auld started visiting San Quentin State Prison to host songwriting workshops for roughly a dozen or so inmates. She offered an idea or song title for the inmates to contemplate and write about for a couple of hours. Then she brought their jottings home, cutting and pasting their lines into the lyrics for a new song. “There are a lot of musicians in prison, so it was a…