Monday, March 16, 2026

“Bertha Mae Lightning”

It’s a sad comment on twenty-first-century musical literacy that anyone could think that “Bertha Mae Lightning” was a real voice in American music.

[It’s AI.]

comments: 2

Sean Crawford said...

For Youtube, I have learned to click on "more" and scroll down to near the very end to find the code words for A.I. In this case, I would not have known because the code was something like "recording remastered digital." Oh, them dirty rats!.

Michael Leddy said...

Yes, and there are comments pointing out to those who are swooning that it’s AI. If you know blues music, the Norah Jones-like voice and the lyrics — “I came up with mud on my ankles and a song that won’t let me sleep” (!) — immediately mark this stuff as a bizarre counterfeit.