Yes. Josh White has 148 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 148

songs in LAION-DISCO-12M under the artist name

A list of 12 million songs on YouTube Music, gathered by walking artist pages, that LAION published in 2024 for training general music models.

Including I Gave My Love A Cherry, Evil Hearted Man, Midnight Special

Listed under the artist name 148 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

Matched exactly: this YouTube Music artist id is the one the dataset lists these songs under.

I Gave My Love A Cherry

Listed as Josh White – I Gave My Love A Cherry (Blues Legend) · Watch on YouTube

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Evil Hearted Man

Listed as Josh White – Evil Hearted Man (Josh White) · Watch on YouTube

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Midnight Special

Listed as Josh White – Midnight Special (Josh White Sings Ballads And Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Fuhrer

Listed as Josh White – Fuhrer (Free and Equal Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Black Girl

Listed as Josh White – Black Girl (The Story Of John Henry... A Musical Narrative) · Watch on YouTube

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Nobody Knows You When Your Down and Out

Listed as Josh White – Nobody Knows You When Your Down and Out (Josh White) · Watch on YouTube

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St. James Infirmary

Listed as Josh White – St. James Infirmary (Josh White) · Watch on YouTube

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You Don't Know My Mind

Listed as Josh White – You Don't Know My Mind (25th Anniversary Album) · Watch on YouTube

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Sissy Man

Listed as Josh White – Sissy Man (Josh White Vol. 2 1933-1935) · Watch on YouTube

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Miss Otis Regrets

Listed as Josh White – Miss Otis Regrets (Josh White) · Watch on YouTube

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Motherless Children

Listed as Josh White – Motherless Children (No. 12 Train) · Watch on YouTube

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John Henry

Listed as Josh White – John Henry (Strange Fruit) · Watch on YouTube

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Trouble

Listed as Josh White – Trouble (Josh White Vol. 4 (1940-1941)) · Watch on YouTube

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Gloomy Sunday

Listed as Josh White – Gloomy Sunday (Josh White Sings Ballads And Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Careless Love

Listed as Josh White – Careless Love (Blues And….) · Watch on YouTube

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Lord Randall, My Son

Listed as Josh White – Lord Randall, My Son (Josh White) · Watch on YouTube

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Evil Blues

Listed as Josh White – Evil Blues (Blues Masterpieces, Vol. 3) · Watch on YouTube

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Hard Times Blues

Listed as Josh White – Hard Times Blues (Strange Fruit) · Watch on YouTube

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Good Woman Blues

Listed as Josh White and Leroy Carr, Leroy Carr – Good Woman Blues (Roots Of The Blues - Josh White) · Watch on YouTube

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Fare Thee Well

Listed as Josh White with Libby Holman – Fare Thee Well (Josh White - The Remaining Titles (1941-1947)) · Watch on YouTube

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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

Listed as Josh White – Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (Josh White and Carl Sandburg) · Watch on YouTube

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Howling Wolf Blues

Listed as Josh White – Howling Wolf Blues (Josh White Vol. 1 1929-1933) · Watch on YouTube

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Old Ship Of Zion

Listed as Josh White – Old Ship Of Zion (Chain Gang Songs) · Watch on YouTube

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Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen

Listed as Josh White – Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen (Spirituals & Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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House of the Rising Sun

Listed as Josh White – House of the Rising Sun (Josh White) · Watch on YouTube

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When I Lay Down and Die

Listed as Josh White – When I Lay Down and Die (Josh White) · Watch on YouTube

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Trouble

Listed as Josh White – Trouble (Chain Gang Songs) · Watch on YouTube

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Scarlet Ribbons

Listed as Josh White – Scarlet Ribbons (Live!) · Watch on YouTube

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Gone Mother Blues

Listed as Josh White – Gone Mother Blues (Josh White Vol. 2 1933-1935) · Watch on YouTube

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Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho

Listed as Josh White – Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho (Josh At Midnight) · Watch on YouTube

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Empty Bed Blues

Listed as Josh White – Empty Bed Blues (Empty Bed Blues (Analog Source Remaster 2019)) · Watch on YouTube

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Raise a Rukus

Listed as Josh White – Raise a Rukus (Josh At Midnight) · Watch on YouTube

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Frankie And Johnnie

Listed as Josh White – Frankie And Johnnie (Josh White Vol. 6 (1944-1945)) · Watch on YouTube

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Southern Exposure

Listed as Josh White – Southern Exposure (Spirituals & Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Jim Crow Train

Listed as Josh White – Jim Crow Train (Strange Fruit) · Watch on YouTube

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Prison Road

Listed as Josh White – Prison Road (Josh White and Carl Sandburg) · Watch on YouTube

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'Twas On A Monday

Listed as Josh White – 'Twas On A Monday (Chain Gang Songs) · Watch on YouTube

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Defense Factory Blues

Listed as Josh White – Defense Factory Blues (Josh White Vol. 4 (1940-1941)) · Watch on YouTube

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Good Morning Blues

Listed as Josh White – Good Morning Blues (Good Morning Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Number 12 Train

Listed as Josh White – Number 12 Train (His Greatest Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Careless Love (mx 671)

Listed as Josh White – Careless Love (mx 671) (Josh White Vol. 3 1935-1940) · Watch on YouTube

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Strange Fruit

Listed as Josh White – Strange Fruit (His Greatest Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Go Away from My Window

Listed as Josh White – Go Away from My Window (Josh White Comes A-Visitin', Big Bill Broonzy Comes A-Singin') · Watch on YouTube

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Jim Crow

Listed as Josh White, Bill White – Jim Crow (Blues Legend) · Watch on YouTube

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You Got To Give Me Some Of It

Listed as Josh White and Buddy Moss, Buddy Moss – You Got To Give Me Some Of It (Roots Of The Blues - Josh White) · Watch on YouTube

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Paul And Silas Bound In Jail

Listed as Josh White – Paul And Silas Bound In Jail (Blues Singer (1932-1936)) · Watch on YouTube

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Sam Hall

Listed as Josh White – Sam Hall (25th Anniversary Album) · Watch on YouTube

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Jim Crow Train

Listed as Josh White – Jim Crow Train (Josh White Sings Ballads And Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town

Listed as Josh White – I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town (Barbara Allen) · Watch on YouTube

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Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin' Bed

Listed as Josh White, Sam Gary, Al Hall – Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin' Bed (Josh At Midnight (Mono Version)) · Watch on YouTube

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What this means

Last reviewed 2026-09-24.

Presence in a public research dataset shows that a clip of your recording was listed by academic or industry researchers as material for building or testing audio models. It does not by itself show which commercial products, if any, used the clip. The legal picture is moving. On 31 July 2026 the Regional Court of Munich I ruled in GEMA's case against Suno (case 42 O 763/25) that reproducing works for training, holding them in a model in retrievable form, and generating similar outputs can each infringe copyright under German and EU law; the judgment is not final and can be appealed. In the United States, Warner Music Group settled its claims against Suno on 25 November 2025 with a licensing deal, while the parallel claims by Universal and Sony were still pending at that point. Since then BMG (12 August 2026) and Believe/TuneCore (8 September 2026) have signed opt-in licensing deals with Suno.

What you can do

3 routes. None is a guarantee.

UK, PRS members. Send PRS for Music your report and ask what collective or licensing route covers your works.
- PRS for Music and Artificial Intelligence, Version 1 (October 2025), 2025-10-01
- PRS for Music: AI and music copyright, 2026-09-24
Germany, GEMA members. GEMA won a first-instance ruling against Suno on 31 July 2026 and has a licensing model. Ask how they apply to your repertoire.
- GEMA: Suno AI and OpenAI, GEMA sues for fair compensation, 2025-01-21
- DLA Piper: GEMA v Suno, Munich Regional Court judgment of 31 July 2026, 2026-08-28
- Music Business Worldwide: Germany's GEMA launches AI Charter, 2024-11-05
Signed to Warner, BMG or Believe/TuneCore. Each has an opt-in licensing deal with Suno. Ask your label what opting in or out means for you and whether any settlement money reaches artists.
- Music Business Worldwide: Warner Music Group settles with Suno, 2025-11-25
- Music Ally: Suno signs another music licensing deal, with BMG, 2026-08-12
- Music Business Worldwide: Suno inks global deal with Believe, 2026-09-08

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These pages report where identifiers from public research datasets point. Presence in a dataset is a fact about the dataset, not a claim about the channel or artist, and says nothing about what any company did with the material. If you are this artist and want this page removed, see removals.