Guitarist Joe Bonamassa used an interview at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival in Austin, Texas, to object to AI acts sharing a chart category with human musicians. Blues Rock Review had asked him about AI in music, and he brought up Eddie Dalton without being prompted. The interview ran on 3 October, and MusicRadar followed two days later.
“Should those artists be in the same category as living people out there? No. That’s a horrible thing.”
Joe Bonamassa, guitarist, to Blues Rock Review · bluesrockreview.com ↗
Bonamassa says Dalton, an AI creation, appears on Billboard's Blues chart every week, though he has never met him or watched him play. In his view listeners are free to enjoy AI music, but it should not be filed alongside living artists. He also says he has spotted AI on some of the roughly 200 blues records he listened to. The chart claim is his own and was not independently checked.
Promotional artwork of the AI blues act Eddie Dalton, used by CMU
Image: Complete Music Update
He was gentler about newcomers. He has never used Suno himself, but says a new artist using it to write a lyric is nothing serious, and he describes the scene as running on an honour system. Both Blues Rock Review and MusicRadar carried those remarks, and he added that ignoring AI's arrival would be a mistake.
Dalton is the creation of Dallas Little, whose company Crunchy Records makes AI recordings; the first tracks came out on 1 April 2026. Complete Music Update reported that 'Another Day Old' reached no. 2 on the UK Official Singles Sales Chart that April, a downloads-only list rather than the main chart, with 1.73 million Spotify streams and about 485,000 monthly listeners at the time. Little says his social videos are labelled AI-generated and rejects the 'content farm' label, while Spotify has said it targets spam and impersonation rather than how music is made.