This is REAL blues!

[sunjamr]

What? You’ve never heard of Otis Lee Booker? Now you have:

Sunjamr Steve

[GnLguy]

Otis sure sounds good!!! Considering he is AI……

This is just another in the long list of fakes that is being generated thru the use of AI
I submitted one of these to Stefan Grossman’s forum and Stefan quickly pointed out that songs on the old 78 RPM records wasn’t 4-5 minutes long and the style of playing didn’t exist in 30s & 40 that was on the AI tunes

[sunjamr]

Interesting, isn’t it? Bandcamp says: “Caveat Emptor. Human-written. AI performed. Fictional artist. Real music.” There was a real Otis Lee Booker, but he was born in 1962 and is now dead. This song is getting quite popular, and I reckon all royalties should go to the family of the real Otis Lee Booker. The song was released by a company called Dumpster Grooves, which is in the business of creating authentic-sounding early blues music using AI. They did a good job.

Sunjamr Steve

[Dieter]

Yes, this is blues at its finest, from its roots.

Dieter

[charjo]

My first thought was this must be fake. My clue was the reverb. I doubted they could record with that kind of reverb back then. Sad that you have to approach everything with cynicism and doubt.
John

[Richard G]

When I first saw this posting from Steve I thought the name of Otis Lee Booker looked decidedly suspect. Then I remembered John Lee Hooker recorded a number of songs under pseudonyms, which evidently wasn’t uncommon among the blues players in those days.

Little G Richard

[GnLguy]

Let’s hear some genuine blues that thére is no doubt about.
Always appreciated the musicianship seen in this video – using his pocket knife as a slide and a huge bandage on another finger if his picking hand

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