13:26 – Suno recently scrapped all their old versions, including v4.5, the one I had been using. The current model, v6, was trained from scratch using only licensed music, and I’m rather impressed by the results. Here’s a sample of what I’ve been able to do with v6-mini, the current free version. It’s the first four songs from the fourth and final installment of Dashiell Hammett’s Poisonville, the next episode of my Killer Serials series here on the Onsug.
Background: A private detective is shacked up with his female informant. She’s afraid someone’s going to kill her; he’s afraid he’s going “blood simple” due to the amount of killing he’s either done or provoked lately. He tries to escape into a gin bottle, and when that proves insufficient, she mixes him a gin-and-laudanum cocktail or two. Not surprisingly, he passes out. When he awakes, he finds her dead with an icepick embedded in her chest. Instead of raising the alarm, he proceeds to remove all trace of his having been there, wiping away his own fingerprints as well as everyone else’s. Upon leaving, he arranges an alibi for himself. Oddly enough, when the police discover the body, the icepick is nowhere to be found.
2:43:13 – Dave in Kentucky is joined by Eddie Murray (at 22:32), Chad Bowers (at 52:14) and Frank Edward Nora (at 1:45:27). The usual suspects are all present and accounted for in body, mind, and spirit.
Next month’s topics: Scofflaws, Nutcases and Sociopaths. Record about one, two or all three of these and send audio files or links to DaveKY at mail.com by 6pm Central Time on October 10, 2026.
Show art: Night Windows (1928) by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) depicts our sneaky time traveler from the automat after she has returned to her room and is getting ready for bed, where she will listen to more of the Overnightscape Central before going to sleep.
Theme songs: “The O.C. Theme Remix” (2024, 2026) and “Goodbye Till Next Month” (2026) by Dave in Kentucky and Suno.ai (v4.5). All other clips are either fair use or public domain.
1:43:59 – The penultimate episode of Dashiell Hammett’s Poisonville serial is the most violent yet, and Dave in Kentucky’s accompanying A.I. songs are the most stylistically diverse yet. In addition to the usual country and bluegrass, there are three different types of swing, a jazz waltz, and even some punk rock. Enjoy!
Dynamite
Cedar Hill
Their Cover was Blown
But Then Came the Bomb
Gin and Vermouth
On the Run with Reno
Sick of the Killing
A-Hole Piggy
All songs by Dave in Kentucky and Suno.ai (v4.5).
Show art: Bombed-out union hall of the Western Federation of Miners local in Butte, Montana, 1914. Public domain.
2:22:43 – Dave in Kentucky is joined by Eddie Murray (at 33:50), Chad Bowers (at 52:38) and Frank Edward Nora (at 1:22:07) to share ideas about popular misconceptions, unpopular opinions and populist politics.
Next month’s topics: The Physical, the Mental and the Spiritual. Record about one, two or all three of these and send audio files or links to DaveKY at mail.com by 6pm Central Time on September 10, 2026.
Show art: Night Windows (1928) by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) depicts our sneaky time traveler from the automat after she has returned to her room and is getting ready for bed, where she will listen to more of the Overnightscape Central before going to sleep.
Theme songs: “The O.C. Theme Remix” (2024, 2026) and “Goodbye Till Next Month” (2026) by Dave in Kentucky and Suno.ai (v4.5).
2:15:25 – Dave in Kentucky is joined by Eddie Murray (at 20:20), Chad Bowers (at 38:24) and Frank Edward Nora (at 1:26:01) for a discussion of the Enduring, the Evolving and the Extinct.
Next month’s topics: Popular Misconceptions, Unpopular Opinions and Populist Politics. Record about one, two or all three of these and send audio files or links to DaveKY at mail.com by 6pm Central Time on August 10, 2026.
Show art: Night Windows (1928) by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) depicts our sneaky time traveler from the automat after she has returned to her room and is getting ready for bed, where she will listen to more of the Overnightscape Central before going to sleep.
Theme songs: “The O.C. Theme Remix” (2024, 2026) and “Goodbye Till Next Month” (2026) by Dave in Kentucky and Suno.ai (v4.5).
2:12:35 – Dave in Kentucky proudly presents his musical version of Part Two of Dashiell Hammett’s Poisonville, featuring eleven complete songs with words by Dave and music by the Suno A.I.
Attempted Murder Number Three
I’m Here to See the Whisper
The Take-a-Dive Waltz
The Fix Wasn’t In
If I Had the Gumption
Unrequited Love
The Woman on the Third-Floor Empty Ward
Easy Come and Easy Go
Not On My Rug, You Stupid Lug
Shots Fired at Dinah Brand’s
Poisonville is Boiling
Show art by A.I. Free Forever (aifreeforever.com).
2:28:15 – Dave in Kentucky provides a prologue, then is joined by Eddie Murray (at 22:39), Chad Bowers (at 52:34) and Frank Edward Nora (at 1:39:56) for some monologues about monologues, some simulated dialogues and the premiere of a new musical epilogue.
Next month’s topics: The Enduring, the Evolving and the Extinct. Record about one, two or all three of these and send audio files or links to DaveKY at mail.com by 6pm Central Time on July 10, 2026.
Show art: Night Windows (1928) by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) depicts our sneaky time traveler from the automat after she has returned to her room and is getting ready for bed, where she will listen to more of the Overnightscape Central before going to sleep.
Theme songs: “The O.C. Theme Remix” (2024, 2026) and “Goodbye Till Next Month” (2026) by Dave in Kentucky and Suno.ai (v4.5).
2:38:33 – Dave in Kentucky proudly presents Part One of Dashiell Hammett’s Poisonville. The fourteen mini-chapters in this installment are summarized by fourteen complete songs written by Dave and implemented by Suno.ai (v4.5). Several musical genres are represented, including country, bluegrass, folk-rock, Latin pop, reggae, doo-wop and jazz. There’s also a new Killer Serials Theme, done in the cheesy style of certain classic TV theme songs.
Song Title
Start Time
1.
Poisonville
9:02
2.
The Only Reds I Ever Liked
21:31
3.
What the Op Seen
33:49
4.
Paperclips and Pocketknives
45:02
5.
When Someone Gets Whacked
52:46
6.
The Hoarse Whisperer
1:02:07
7.
The Lady Likes Dinero
1:10:09
8.
The Cleopatra of Poisonville
1:20:20
9.
Drinking Gin and Chewing Lemon Peel
1:32:28
10.
The Guts to Match the Gall
1:46:06
11.
Holed Up in the Gambling Den
1:57:55
12.
Two Birds, One Stone
2:11:10
13.
The Lousy Red Herring
2:23:45
14.
Should Have Been Farmers
2:29:47
Show art: Public-domain covers of the November 1927 (right) and February 1928 (left) issues of Black Mask, which contained two episodes of the Poisonville serial. The characters depicted are perhaps Elihu Willsson and Bill Quint.
3:10:31 – Dave in Kentucky is joined by Randy from California (at 43:22), Eddie Murray (at 54:10), Chad Bowers (at 1:19:10) and Frank Edward Nora (at 2:15:47) for a discussion of G.I.’s, P.I.’s and A.I.’s.
Next month’s topics: Prologues, Monologues & Epilogues. Record about one, two or all three of these and send audio files or links to DaveKY at mail.com by 6pm Central Time on June 10, 2026.
Show art: Night Windows (1928) by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) depicts our sneaky time traveler from the automat after she has returned to her room and is getting ready for bed, where she will listen to more of the Overnightscape Central before going to sleep.
Opening theme: “It’s Central Time Again” (2024) by Dave in Kentucky and Suno.ai (v3.5). Closing theme: “Noise Rebellion” (2024) by Eddie Murray and Suno.ai (v3).
1:14:36 – Alternate Timeline Records presents songs inspired by Dashiell Hammett’s The Dain Curse, as heard on Onsug’s Killer Serials. All of the actual songs (but none of the instrumentals) are included — a double album’s worth!
Song Title
Start Time
1.
A Diamond in the Grass
0:00
2.
Two Men
1:35
3.
Cherchez, as the French Would Say
4:14
4.
Minnie and Rhino
5:28
5.
When Facts Are All Assembled
8:52
6.
Hopped-Up Mama
10:47
7.
A Heck of a Frame
14:07
8.
Trendy Cults
15:15
9.
A Comfortable Stay
17:57
10.
Manuel & the Hollow Temple
20:07
11.
In the Room where Flowers Died
23:27
12.
Not Much Competition
25:22
13.
Ghostly Apparition
27:32
14.
Reno or Bust
29:57
15.
Black Honeymoon
31:42
16.
A Honeymoon in Separate Rooms
33:42
17.
Quesada, Quesada
36:21
18.
Back to Quesada
38:48
19.
Blinded by Ambition
41:57
20.
A Feral Cat Indeed
44:42
21.
Guilty Just the Same
48:06
22.
The Wreck that was Owen Fitzstephan
51:14
23.
Back to the House in the Cove
54:36
24.
These Morphine Blues
57:31
25.
Aaronia Arrives
1:00:23
26.
A Spic with a Shiv
1:04:12
27.
Sit Down, She Said
1:06:53
28.
Funky Pheromones
1:11:06
Words by Dave in Kentucky, music and performance by Suno.ai (v4.5).
Show art: Unknown girl from the 1920s, reminiscent of the fictional Gabrielle Leggett, public domain.
