Yes. Merle Travis has 139 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 139

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 Walkin' The Strings (Instrumental / 1954 Version), Cincinnatti Lou, Blue Bell (Instrumental)

Listed under the artist name 139 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Walkin' The Strings (Instrumental / 1954 Version)

Listed as Merle Travis – Walkin' The Strings (Instrumental / 1954 Version) (The Merle Travis Guitar) · Watch on YouTube

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Cincinnatti Lou

Listed as Merle Travis – Cincinnatti Lou (Roots of Rock N' Roll Vol 3 1947) · Watch on YouTube

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Blue Bell (Instrumental)

Listed as Merle Travis – Blue Bell (Instrumental) (The Merle Travis Guitar) · Watch on YouTube

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John Henry

Listed as Merle Travis – John Henry (Folk Songs Of The Hills) · Watch on YouTube

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Shut Up And Drink Your Beer

Listed as Merle Travis – Shut Up And Drink Your Beer (Looking Better Every Beer) · Watch on YouTube

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Bugle Call Rag (Instrumental)

Listed as Merle Travis – Bugle Call Rag (Instrumental) (The Merle Travis Guitar) · Watch on YouTube

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Re-Enlistment Blues

Listed as Merle Travis – Re-Enlistment Blues (Capitol Country Music Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Too Much Sugar For A Dime

Listed as Merle Travis – Too Much Sugar For A Dime (I'm A Natural Born Gamblin' Man) · Watch on YouTube

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Done Rovin'

Listed as Merle Travis – Done Rovin' (All About Country) · Watch on YouTube

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Possum Up A Simmon Tree

Listed as Merle Travis – Possum Up A Simmon Tree (Folk Songs Of The Hills) · Watch on YouTube

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Nine Pound Hammer

Listed as Merle Travis – Nine Pound Hammer (Folk Songs of the Hills 1947) · Watch on YouTube

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The Sheik Of Araby (Instrumental)

Listed as Merle Travis – The Sheik Of Araby (Instrumental) (The Merle Travis Guitar) · Watch on YouTube

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Memphis Blues (Instrumental)

Listed as Merle Travis – Memphis Blues (Instrumental) (The Merle Travis Guitar) · Watch on YouTube

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Cannonball Rag (Instrumental)

Listed as Merle Travis – Cannonball Rag (Instrumental) (Strictly Guitar) · Watch on YouTube

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Sixteen Tons

Listed as Merle Travis – Sixteen Tons (1955 Hits, Vol. 1) · Watch on YouTube

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Rockabye Rag (Instrumental)

Listed as Merle Travis – Rockabye Rag (Instrumental) (The Merle Travis Guitar) · Watch on YouTube

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That's All

Listed as Merle Travis – That's All (Folk Songs Of The Hills) · Watch on YouTube

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I'll See You In My Dreams

Listed as Merle Travis – I'll See You In My Dreams (The Best Of Merle Travis: Sweet Temptation 1946-1953) · Watch on YouTube

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So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed

Listed as Merle Travis – So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed (Capitol Country Music Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Saturday Night Shuffle (Instrumental)

Listed as Merle Travis – Saturday Night Shuffle (Instrumental) (Walkin' The Strings) · Watch on YouTube

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Merle's Boogie Woogie

Listed as Merle Travis – Merle's Boogie Woogie (Capitol Country Music Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Black Diamond Blues (Instrumental)

Listed as Merle Travis – Black Diamond Blues (Instrumental) (The Merle Travis Guitar) · Watch on YouTube

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Sweet Temptation

Listed as Merle Travis – Sweet Temptation (I'm A Natural Born Gamblin' Man) · Watch on YouTube

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Steel Guitar Rag

Listed as Merle Travis – Steel Guitar Rag (Summer Bluegrass Night, Vol. 3) · Watch on YouTube

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Steel Guitar Rag

Listed as Merle Travis – Steel Guitar Rag (Capitol Country Music Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed

Listed as Merle Travis – So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed (Country #1's The Collection) · Watch on YouTube

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Missouri

Listed as Merle Travis – Missouri (Capitol Country Music Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Sixteen Tons

Listed as Merle Travis – Sixteen Tons (Country Classics - The Absolutely Essential Collection) · Watch on YouTube

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I'll See You In My Dreams

Listed as Merle Travis – I'll See You In My Dreams (Strictly Guitar) · Watch on YouTube

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Blue Smoke (Instrumental)

Listed as Merle Travis – Blue Smoke (Instrumental) (The Merle Travis Guitar) · Watch on YouTube

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Saturday Night Shuffle (Instrumental)

Listed as Merle Travis – Saturday Night Shuffle (Instrumental) (The Merle Travis Guitar) · Watch on YouTube

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Sixteen Tons

Listed as Merle Travis – Sixteen Tons (Bluegrass Then & Now) · Watch on YouTube

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Blues Stay Away From Me

Listed as Merle Travis, Johnny Bond – Blues Stay Away From Me (Capitol Country Music Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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House of David Blues

Listed as Merle Travis – House of David Blues (Honky Tonk Rockabillies, Volume 2) · Watch on YouTube

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On A Bicycle Built For Two (Instrumental)

Listed as Merle Travis – On A Bicycle Built For Two (Instrumental) (The Merle Travis Guitar) · Watch on YouTube

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In the Pines (feat. Mac Wiseman)

Listed as Merle Travis – In the Pines (feat. Mac Wiseman) (Wabash Cannonball : 20 Classic Train Songs) · Watch on YouTube

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I'll See You In My Dreams

Listed as Chet Atkins, Merle Travis – I'll See You In My Dreams (Chet Picks On The Grammys) · Watch on YouTube

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Sixteen Tons

Listed as Merle Travis – Sixteen Tons (Sixteen Tons, The Kentucky Legend) · Watch on YouTube

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Green Cheese

Listed as Merle Travis – Green Cheese (The Guitar Picker) · Watch on YouTube

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I Am a Pilgrim

Listed as Merle Travis – I Am a Pilgrim (Folk Songs of the Hills 1947) · Watch on YouTube

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Wildwood Flower

Listed as Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys, Merle Travis – Wildwood Flower (Capitol Country Music Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Divorce Me C.O.D.

Listed as Merle Travis – Divorce Me C.O.D. (Capitol Country Music Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Sixteen Tons

Listed as Merle Travis – Sixteen Tons (1955 Hits, Vol. 1) · Watch on YouTube

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Sixteen Tons

Listed as Merle Travis – Sixteen Tons (Folk Songs of the Hills 1947) · Watch on YouTube

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Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Listed as Merle Travis – Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Hard Travelin') · Watch on YouTube

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Fat Gal

Listed as Merle Travis – Fat Gal (The Merle Travis Story) · Watch on YouTube

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Louisiana Boogie

Listed as Merle Travis – Louisiana Boogie (Merle Travis' Divorce Me C. O. D) · Watch on YouTube

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Guitar Rag

Listed as Merle Travis – Guitar Rag (Strictly Guitar) · Watch on YouTube

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Divorce Me C. O. D.

Listed as Merle Travis – Divorce Me C. O. D. (Country & Western - 200 No. 1 Hits, Vol. 9) · Watch on YouTube

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Dark as a Dungeon

Listed as Merle Travis – Dark as a Dungeon (Folk Songs of the Hills 1947) · 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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