“Crawling Kingsnake” by The Black Keys

"Crawling Kingsnake" is the Black Keys digging into deep blues ground on Delta Kream, their 2021 album. The song is thought to have begun life as a Delta blues back in the 1920s, a cousin to Victoria Spivey's "Black Snake Blues" and Blind Lemon Jefferson's "Black Snake Moan", and Big Joe Williams first put it on record in 1941. The Keys' version carries a John Lee Hooker writing credit.

Dan Auerbach sings and plays electric guitar alongside Kenny Brown, Eric Deaton handles electric bass, and Patrick Carney is credited on percussion, with Sam Bacco adding more. Auerbach and Carney produced it themselves, Tchad Blake mixed, and M. Allen Parker engineered, with Michael Deano, Mickey Smay and Caleb VanBuskirk helping out behind the glass.

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