I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried in My Grave

Recording by Bessie Smith.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
GBAVQ1800046
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0xee008d01443a865a0aba4d9fa93038824cfd2c43551a0f2e8cd8c08dbc4b0692
Copyright registration time
2026-07-07T09:17:12+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-08T03:20:19Z
Bitcoin block
957118
Canonical record hash
sha256:80052931604604766cb63dc12da08e34f2661e02a22a2a6ac0269a3f2dcfb030

What this proof establishes

This recording belongs to ProofProfile's historical evidence base derived from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz corpus. ISRC is the stable recording-level bridge from that source corpus to the authoritative cc-db-prod track record.

CopyrightChains and Bitcoin OpenTimestamps make the exact committed record independently verifiable today. The cryptographic proof does not by itself establish authorship or ownership of the underlying recording.

Read the complete pre-generative-AI provenance and verification method.