It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

Recording by Lucinda Williams.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
QMFME2087536
Release date of the album this recording appears on
2020-12-09
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x040709ca7ee307f974d11f6d46099b9fb0c48e7669da76e00d3490b16623b910

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-30T21:35:24Z
Bitcoin block
960317
Canonical record hash
sha256:19587a61976359da9d80111c50aa5650c7fa689fabe0c59c77c2faedd35c2e9f

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 2020, before generative AI. ProofProfile's catalogue derives from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz source corpus, and 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.