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Crawling King Groove: Day 6 of the AI Blues Revival

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Crawling King Groove: Day 6 of the AI Blues Revival

Jason Lord
Jason “Deep Dive” Lord
May 17, 2025 • Privacy Policy & Terms

Welcome to Day 6 of our 16-day journey into the haunted heart of AI-generated blues. Today we’re diving into "Crawling King Groove," a track rooted in one of the oldest, slinkiest motifs of Delta lore: the crawling king snake. From juke joints to graveyard grooves, this installment isn’t just another track—it’s a myth brought to life with circuits, samples, and soul.

🐍 What is Crawling King Groove?

The track pulls directly from the lineage of Crawling King Snake, a Delta blues staple popularized by John Lee Hooker and first recorded by Big Joe Williams in 1941. Its lyrical structure and swagger have influenced generations of musicians—and now, for the first time, an AI interpretation carries the torch. We’ve stripped it back to its reptilian bones and rebuilt it using neural rhythm modeling, timbre blending, and AI-assisted lyric scaffolding.

🎶 How the Groove Was Built

"Crawling King Groove" began with a prompt-driven audio sketch using Suno AI’s groove generator and style transfer engine. We fed in descriptors like "hypnotic," "swampy," and "trance-funk blues" with references to John Lee Hooker phrasing and Junior Kimbrough’s groove layering. A resonator guitar with AI-scripted slide phrasing and distorted upright bass patches laid the foundation. Vocals were rendered through emotional tone-matched AI and finalized with a breath/grit simulation pass.

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Side A – Crawling King Groove

A snake-bodied bluesman wearing a crown slithers across a haunted juke joint stage. With glowing yellow eyes and a forked tongue, he wields a slide guitar under the smoky neon sign: "KING GROOVE." Crawling spirits below appear hypnotized by the groove. Raw, mythic, swamp-drenched energy captured in every brushstroke.

Side B – Crawling King Groove (1)

An overhead view of a delta dancefloor lit by a glowing vinyl record that radiates hypnotic coils of groove. Ghostlike dancers stumble in trance while a crowned snake-groove master sits cross-legged on an amp, eyes closed, lost in the music. Psychedelic energy and dreamlike tones dominate this surreal visual.

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🔸 Your Vote, Your Album

Each day, you vote for Side A or Side B. The version with the most likes earns its place in the final album tracklist: Dust & Devil Wind – Ghost Blues for the AI Age.

Watch & vote on Side A: https://youtu.be/c2syDkyUn4w
Watch & vote on Side B: https://youtu.be/ec6vY_koPrA

🌊 Final Thoughts

Crawling King Groove is blues reborn in circuits and myth. Whether you dig the snaky stomp of Side A or the hypnotic dreamstate of Side B, your vote keeps the groove alive. Tomorrow, the rhythm twists again.

#DustAndDevilWind | #CrawlingKingGroove | #DeepDiveAI

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