Yes. Sonny Terry has 152 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 152

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 Lost John, Tryin' To Win, Betty and Dupree's Blues

Listed under the artist name 152 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Lost John

Listed as Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry – Lost John (Brownie & Sonny) · Watch on YouTube

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Tryin' To Win

Listed as Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry – Tryin' To Win (Blues & Folk) · Watch on YouTube

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Betty and Dupree's Blues

Listed as Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry – Betty and Dupree's Blues (Down Home Blues (Mono Version)) · Watch on YouTube

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Gone Gal

Listed as Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry – Gone Gal (Blues & Folk) · Watch on YouTube

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Po' Boy

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Po' Boy (Sun's Gonna Shine) · Watch on YouTube

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Barbecue Any Old Time

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie Mcghee – Barbecue Any Old Time (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Vol. C (1941-1946)) · Watch on YouTube

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Dangerous Woman

Listed as Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee – Dangerous Woman (Harmonica Train) · Watch on YouTube

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Meet Me Down The Bottom

Listed as Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry – Meet Me Down The Bottom (Blues & Folk) · Watch on YouTube

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Pawnshop Blues

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Pawnshop Blues (Hometown Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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East Coast Blues

Listed as Brownie Mcghee, Sonny Terry – East Coast Blues (Blues All Around My Head) · Watch on YouTube

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Conversation with the River

Listed as Sonny Terry, Brownie McGee – Conversation with the River (Mississippi Delta) · Watch on YouTube

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Sittin' On Top Of The World

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Sittin' On Top Of The World (Hometown Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Bluebird Bluebird

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Bluebird Bluebird (Blues For Kids) · Watch on YouTube

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Pawnshop Blues

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Pawnshop Blues (101 - The Best of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee) · Watch on YouTube

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Robbie-Doby Boogie

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie Mcghee – Robbie-Doby Boogie (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Vol. E (1938-1941)) · Watch on YouTube

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Ride And Roll

Listed as Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry – Ride And Roll (At The Bunkhouse) · Watch on YouTube

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Custard Pie Blues

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie Mcghee – Custard Pie Blues (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Vol. E (1938-1941)) · Watch on YouTube

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Betty and Dupree

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Betty and Dupree (101 - The Best of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee) · Watch on YouTube

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Blowing The Fuses

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Blowing The Fuses (Sun's Gonna Shine) · Watch on YouTube

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Best of Friends

Listed as Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee – Best of Friends (Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry Sing) · Watch on YouTube

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Harmonica Blues

Listed as Sonny Terry – Harmonica Blues (Everybody's Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Mean Old Frisco

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Mean Old Frisco (Hometown Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Too Nicey Mama

Listed as Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry – Too Nicey Mama (Blues & Folk) · Watch on YouTube

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Stranger Blues

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Stranger Blues (Hometown Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Blues All Around My Head

Listed as Brownie Mcghee, Sonny Terry – Blues All Around My Head (Blues All Around My Head) · Watch on YouTube

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Keys to the Higway

Listed as Sonny Terry, Big Bill Broonzy, Brownie Mcghee – Keys to the Higway (Blues with Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee) · Watch on YouTube

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Key To The Highway (Live At The Newport Folk Festival 1959 - 1964)

Listed as Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry – Key To The Highway (Live At The Newport Folk Festival 1959 - 1964) (Blues At Newport (Live At The Newport Folk Festival 1959 - 1964)) · Watch on YouTube

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Can't Help Myself

Listed as Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee – Can't Help Myself (Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry Sing) · Watch on YouTube

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Freight Train

Listed as Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry – Freight Train (Down Home Blues (Mono Version)) · Watch on YouTube

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Crying at the Station (Live)

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Crying at the Station (Live) (Blues Over America) · Watch on YouTube

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Change the Lock On the Door

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Change the Lock On the Door (101 - The Best of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee) · Watch on YouTube

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I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago (Blues For Kids) · Watch on YouTube

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Preachin' the Blues

Listed as Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee – Preachin' the Blues (Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry Sing) · Watch on YouTube

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Boogie Baby

Listed as Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee – Boogie Baby (Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry Sing) · Watch on YouTube

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I'm Gonna Rock

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – I'm Gonna Rock (Pawnshop Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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So Much Trouble

Listed as Brownie McGhee / Sonny Terry – So Much Trouble (New York Blues & R&B 1949 - 1979) · Watch on YouTube

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Midnight Special

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Midnight Special (An Introduction To Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee) · Watch on YouTube

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Baby Please Don't Go

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Baby Please Don't Go (The Roots of Garage Rock) · Watch on YouTube

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Big Legged Woman

Listed as Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee – Big Legged Woman (Stranger Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Sweet Lovin' Kind

Listed as Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry – Sweet Lovin' Kind (Blues & Folk) · Watch on YouTube

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Make a Little Money (Let Me Make a Little Money)

Listed as Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee – Make a Little Money (Let Me Make a Little Money) (Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry Sing) · Watch on YouTube

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Sporting Life

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Sporting Life (101 - The Best of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee) · Watch on YouTube

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Good Morning Blues

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Good Morning Blues (101 - The Best of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee) · Watch on YouTube

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Blues Before Sunrise

Listed as Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry – Blues Before Sunrise (Blues & Folk) · Watch on YouTube

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I'm a Burnt Child

Listed as Sonny Terry, Brownie McGee – I'm a Burnt Child (Mississippi Delta) · Watch on YouTube

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Keep on Walkin'

Listed as Sonny Terry, Brownie McGee – Keep on Walkin' (Mississippi Delta) · Watch on YouTube

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Hootin' The Blues

Listed as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Hootin' The Blues (The Ultimate Blues Anthology: Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Vol. 4) · Watch on YouTube

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I'm Crazy 'Bout You Baby

Listed as Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee – I'm Crazy 'Bout You Baby (A Little Folk Mixed with Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Beggin' and Cryin'

Listed as Brownie Mcghee, Sonny Terry – Beggin' and Cryin' (Blues All Around My Head) · Watch on YouTube

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Take This Hammer Whup

Listed as Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry – Take This Hammer Whup (Blues & Folk) · 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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