Every generation gets a new “menace” in music—from the Victrola Sousa feared to the new sounds Irving Berlin defended, to today’s AI. The tools keep changing, but the heart of the song has never been the machine, it’s the story. County Road Junction uses AI as just another instrument to tell modern country stories with the same old soul: highways and heartbreaks, blue‑collar lives, and the misfits still standing when the smoke clears.