Update — August 2026: AI Country Music is now an on-demand music platform rather than a continuous 24/7 radio station. This article was originally published while the radio station was still operating.
For the past year and a half — maybe even longer — I've written almost every song that now plays on AI Country Music. Some are about my family. Others are about dreams, memories, life, moving forward, falling down and getting back up. A good number of them come straight from my own experience with burnout and depression.
Here's the thing nobody tells you about burnout: it doesn't take the songs away. It takes the stamina away. I could still sit down with a guitar or a piano and write something honest. What I couldn't reliably do anymore was stand behind a microphone and sing it the way it deserved — not once, not consistently, not without paying for it physically for days afterward.
Burnout doesn't take the songs away. It takes the stamina away.
So I had a choice. Put the songs in a drawer until my voice came back, however long that took. Or find a way to let them exist anyway.
The songs stayed mine
I chose the second option, using AI-generated vocals to perform songs I'd already written and composed by hand. That distinction matters to me more than almost anything else about this project: the writing is entirely mine, done the same way it's always been done — guitar, piano, a melody that shows up uninvited and won't leave until I've done something with it. The AI's job starts after that work is finished. It sings what I wrote; it doesn't write anything itself.
I was careful about this for a specific reason. I didn't want to build something that looked like it was competing with musicians who've spent years earning their craft, rehearsing, playing live, doing the work I currently can't do. This isn't that. It's a personal workaround for a personal limitation — my own space, for my own songs, while I get better.
Why a radio station, specifically
I could have just uploaded songs one at a time and left it at that. I built a 24/7 station instead because these songs, taken together, are something closer to a body of work than a scattered playlist — stories about a family, a place, a way of thinking about hard days. A radio station felt like the right shape for that: always on, no schedule, no algorithm deciding what you hear next based on what keeps you scrolling. Just the songs, in rotation, for whoever wants to listen.
Once my voice allows it again, you'll start hearing tracks I sing myself, released separately on Spotify. Until then, everything is here — free, 24 hours a day, no sign-up required.