r/blues

Since the start of 2026, the music world has changed
AI Music has now made up at least 28% up to 40% of daily uploads onto these platforms, and a decent chunk belongs to people pushing out AI music solely for profit over any form of creativity
 
With the addition of Spotify "carefully" labeling real musicians who do not use AI Generation, their requirements have left many musicians who don’t use any AI Generation and just below this requirement in the dust.

 
I feel that two additions to both of these platforms will let users / listeners who use these music platforms daily be able to fully understand in a complete transparent way on WHO they are listening to and WHAT they are listening to.
 
If there is enough evidence to show that the artist on this platform is AI Generated and not a real-life musician, it should have an "May Contain AI Generation" label on the artist profile itself, similar to how Spotify now has "Verified By Spotify" so the listener understands that the person behind the songs they are listening to with full transparency.
If there is enough evidence to show that the song on this platform is AI Generated, it should be listed next to the artist name on these platforms with "May Contain AI Generation", so if a listener finds the song on a "Mix" or a "Radio" they are listening to, they are able to view that the song could have AI Generation involved with it.
Considering that both of these platforms have allowed AI Generated Music to be put on the platform and have started to implement a crude method to verify musicians who don’t use AI at all, we need to at least have full transparency that the track was either made by a real human or made by an AI or an Hybrid AI/Human track

Live at the BB King's Blues Club

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWBFFgT5NPA&list=PLBg7FW7o1b_JQQXwziR2XZ6MO8_9NJv68&index=4

https://preview.redd.it/ova92yuxwa2h1.jpg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f4a3b6975c6ca17832548a7c74b3a28b4830cff5

I love the blues. I’ve been looking for new blues music with its roots in the old. Any thread for this or recos?

Amazing set recorded live in Leon Russell's Paradise Studios in Los Angeles. SET LIST: 1.T-Bone Shuffle 2.Nowhere To Run 3.Cocaine 4.Ten Easy Lessons 5.Sensitive Kind 6.Hands Off Her 7.Lou-Easy-Ann 8.Going Down 9.Corine Corina 10.Roll On 11.No Sweat 12.Crazy Mama 13.Fate Of A Fool 14.BoilinΓÇÖ Pot 15.After Midnight 16.T-Bone Shuffle 17.T-Bone Backwards 18.Same Ole Blues 19.Don't Cry Sister 20.Set Your Soul Free (Tell Me Who You Are) 21.24 Hours A Day

I understand that Bukka White wrote the song and KWS doesn't legally owe credit to The Snakes.  But the fact is, The Snakes arrangement of the song is very unique and very unlike the original Bukka version.  It is very much an original arrangement. Yet KWS's version is identical to The Snakes version, and to this day, he has never referenced them as his inspiration. He would certainly have been inspired by their version, as his is a carbon copy.

Bukka White "Aberdeen"  (1967)

The Snakes "Aberdeen" (1989)

Kenny Wayne Shepherd "Aberdeen" (1996)