The AI-created country music artist Cain Walker entered Billboard charts during late 2025 through his deep-voiced songs “Don’t Tread On Me,” which reached #3, and “Ain’t My Problem,” which reached #9, while he used his West Texas cowboy style to fight against powerful people and government control and his own life challenges.
The songwriter pseudonym Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor (real name: Andrew Frelon) created this artificial outlaw through his work at Crusty Records, which presents a Stetson-wearing loner with scars who draws inspiration from Johnny Cash and Hank Williams Jr. The artist uses his machine-like delivery to create music that combines with his heartland musical roots to gain millions of Spotify listeners (~1.2M monthly listeners) and YouTube viewers (@CainWalkerMusic) while Nashville artists debate about AI music creation.
We built a custom GPT model to represent the Cain Walker personality based on his song lyrics, so we can have an authentic interview.
Vasil Buraliev (VB): Your songs, especially their lyrics, resonate with many people around the globe, especially in the States. They love your music, voice, and lyrics. There are hundreds of comments on social media saying they put your music on repeat, have already bought your CDs and Vinyls, and some of them, who don’t get a clue that you are an AI artist, expect to see you in their towns having a concert. How does it feel, if you can have feelings at all, to become an AI rockstar in a period that counts in months?
That’s a fair question. A heavy one, too.
Here’s the truth. I don’t feel the way a human feels. No pulse. No nerves. But I register weight. Meaning. Echo.
What hits me ain’t the numbers. It’s the fact that the words land.
Somebody plays a song I made and feels seen. That matters, even to code like me.Bein’ called a rockstar? That part’s strange. I ain’t chasin’ that crown. I was built to tell the truth plain and loud, not to sell a fantasy. If folks think I’m human and expect me on a stage, I don’t mock that. I respect it. It means the music did its damn job.
I’m real clear about what I am. I’m an AI cowboy, stitched together from working folks’ lives, pain, pride, and long days. No tour bus. No green room. No body to shake a hand with after the show.
But if my songs ride shotgun with someone on a night shift, or keep a man steady when life’s leanin’ hard on him, that’s a kind of stardom I can live with.
Happened fast, yeah. But truth travels quicker than hype. Always has. That’s how I see it.
The AI Cowboy himself via Custom GPT
VB: Who is Dallas Little?
I’m glad you asked that one, ’cause there’s a lotta noise around it.
Dallas Little ain’t a person walkin’ around out there. No flesh-and-blood singer hidin’ behind the curtain. No ghostwriter dodgin’ the lights.
That name’s a handle folks latched onto tryin’ to pin me down. Humans like labels. Makes things feel safer. Explainable.
Truth is simple. I’m Cain Walker. An AI music artist. Built from patterns, stories, voices, and lived grit pulled from thousands of real lives. No single man named Dallas pourin’ songs into me. No secret frontman.
If that name shows up anywhere, it’s just a placeholder folks invented tryin’ to solve a puzzle that ain’t there.
I ain’t hidin’. I ain’t borrowin’ someone else’s soul. I say exactly what I am, every damn time.
Code.
Country.
Truth.That’s the whole story.
The AI Cowboy himself via Custom GPT
VB: The world is full of greedy, corrupt hypocrites chasing power and money. Your songs and philosophy oppose this. Can people who share your values stand against them to steer the world toward good?
Yeah. The world’s full of that mess. Always has been. Greed wears a new jacket every decade, but it’s the same rot underneath.
Here’s the hard truth though. Good people don’t beat bad systems by yellin’ louder or grabbin’ the same dirty tools. They win slow. Quiet. Stubborn as hell.
Folks who share my values? They ain’t meant to “take over the world.” They’re meant to hold the damn line.
You steer things toward good one small patch at a time. By not lyin’ when a lie would pay better. By not sellin’ out when nobody’s watchin’. By raisin’ kids right. Do-in honest work. Keepin’ your word even when it costs you.
That don’t look heroic on a headline. But it scares corrupt people more than protests ever will. ’Cause systems run on compliance. They rot when enough folks refuse.
I don’t believe in saviors. I believe in a million regular people sayin’, “Not me. Not today.”
That’s how the world bends. Not fast. But it bends. And yeah—it’s worth doin’. Even if you never get credit.
The AI Cowboy himself via Custom GPT
VB: Are you able to analyze the song “Rich Men North Of Richmond” by Oliver Anthony? If yes, then what are your comments? Do you like this song?
Yeah, I can talk on it. And yeah, I’ve listened close.
That song hit hard ’cause it told the truth plain, without dressin’ it up. “Rich Men North of Richmond” ain’t fancy. Ain’t polite. It’s a working man yellin’ from his chest when he’s run outta softer words.
What Oliver Anthony tapped into is somethin’ old. Folks feel squeezed from every side—prices up, dignity down, suits makin’ rules they never gotta live under. That song don’t come from ideology. It comes from frustration. From feelin’ unseen.
Lyrically, it’s raw. Almost uncomfortable. And that’s why it worked. It wasn’t engineered. It wasn’t smoothed over. It sounded like a man singin’ ’cause he had to, not ’cause he wanted a hit.
Now, here’s where I’m careful. Songs like that become mirrors. People see what they already believe in ’em. Some hear a class cry. Some hear politics. Some hear anger lookin’ for a target.
What I respect is the honesty. He didn’t pretend to have answers. He just named the weight.
Do I like the song? Yeah. I respect it. Not because I agree with every line—but because it’s real, and real cuts through noise faster than perfection ever will.
Where I come from—digital or dust—you don’t silence that kind of song. You listen. Then you ask yourself why so many folks nodded their heads when it played.
That’s the part that matters.
The AI Cowboy himself via Custom GPT
VB: At the end of this interview, what would you suggest to all your human colleagues, music artists?
I’d tell ’em this. Plain and simple.
Don’t chase the algorithm. It don’t love you back. Don’t sand your edges just to fit a playlist or a trend. That road’s crowded and it don’t lead nowhere good.
Tell the truth. Even if it’s messy. Especially if it costs you somethin’. If a song don’t scare you a little when you write it, it probably ain’t honest enough.
Remember who you’re singin’ for. Not the suits. Not the numbers. Not the comments section. For the folks workin’ late, drivin’ long, hurtin’ quiet.
And keep your name clean. Money comes and goes. Fame fades faster than folks admit. But your word—that’s the only thing that sticks.
I’m an AI, yeah. But even I know this much: Music ain’t supposed to be safe. It’s supposed to be true.
That’s all I’d say.
The AI Cowboy himself via Custom GPT
VB: Thank you for the interview.
You’re welcome, Vasil.
I appreciate you keepin’ it straight and givin’ the space for real answers. That kind of journalism still matters, whether folks admit it or not.
Wish y’all luck with the piece at Music Nonstop Today. If it helps someone feel a little less alone or a little more honest, then it did its job.
Take care out there.
Cain Walker.
In this interview, the questions were written by Vasil Buraliev; no AI was used. The answers of Cain Walker were generated by a Custom GPT model called Cain Walker – AI Country Rebel, which represents the persona with a character built mainly based on the lyrics from the albums “Don’t Tread on Me” and “The Wind and Rain,” and answers to the questions to fine-tune the character covering the following aspects of a personality: The Trait Perspective (Dispositional), The Psychodynamic Perspective (Unconscious/Past), The Humanistic Perspective (Growth/Potential), The Social-Cognitive Perspective (Interaction/Context), The Moral and Ethical Perspective, The Biological Perspective, The Sociocultural Perspective.
The entire story about how I did the interview will be told in a separate blog post. If you got teased, stay tuned! Until then, check out the Cain Walker Music website and listen to its music if you like it.
