Charley Crockett's new album "Clovis" has been yanked from streaming services. #FREECHARLEY savingcountrymusic.com/charl…

”You're not gonna win, there's no fighting AI” Diplo's take on AI is spot on, and he's ahead of 99% of creatives, across all disciplines > it's inevitable, and you're dumb if you don't use it > it's a tool, just like many other things before it > taste and references matter A LOT amazing interview by @DanielSWall

Alt-country revivalism and incisive songwriting at its best. Album Review – The Droptines – “Drought Flower” savingcountrymusic.com/album…

🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”

Bondi: “Donald Trump signed that law to release all of those documents. He is the most transparent president in the nation’s history” @Grok, remind us how Trump fought against this bill and what he reportedly said to Republicans who signed the discharge petition. Keep it short

People keep saying “AI training on books is theft,” but that only works if you fundamentally misunderstand what training actually is. Here’s the simplest, most human analogy. When a child learns to read, they absorb patterns from thousands of sentences. They learn grammar, rhythm, storytelling, vocabulary, structure. Their brain builds an internal model of how language works. Later, that child writes something new. What they write is influenced by everything they’ve read, but it is not a copy of any book. It’s a transformed, abstracted understanding. No one would ever claim the child is “stealing” from every author they learned from. No one expects them to pay royalties to the books they used to learn how to write. No one thinks learning itself is a crime. Learning doesn’t duplicate the original. It synthesizes patterns into something new. AI does the exact same thing. It learns statistical patterns of language. Just like we do. If pattern learning were theft, then every human writer would be guilty. Every journalist, scientist, poet, novelist, teacher, and student. Humanity itself would be a copyright violation. The output matters, not the learning. If an AI copied a book verbatim and sold it, that would be theft. But training? That’s just learning, the same process every human mind goes through. If we criminalize learning, we don’t just break AI. We break everything.

I grew up singing. I sang everywhere I went, I wrote songs in my diary, I told teachers that I wanted to be a singer & songwriter when I grew up. But wanting to be a musician in 2006 required resources that a low-income family didn't have. My parents couldn't afford to get me any instruments. They couldn't pay for music lessons. They couldn't get me into studios. A dream I had became just a memory, until now. I am beyond proud and honored to get to work at a company that is enabling music creation for everyone. For the 13 year old kid in their bedroom who dreams of being a musician, you can be one. For all of the professional artists, you can do more of what you love. I really wish Suno existed 20 years ago when I was a kid in elementary school, showing strangers songs I wrote with no way to produce them. But I'm really, really happy that it exists today, for all of the other kids who might need it. We are still just getting started :)

A live performance of East Nashville Song About A Train on the Morsecode Podcast. We talked about my NYC days, Letterman, The Dolls, my good brother the late great Todd Snider, and got heavily into my solo career, songwriting process, and approach to recording music.

It's time to make some noise for your #CMAawards Vocal Group of the Year, @RedClayStrays 🤩🎉