Greetings:

I recently recorded I Know You Rider, and I will likely include it on my next CD, scheduled for release later this year. Here's how I describe it in the song notes: One of my all-time favorite traditional blues. Bob Coltman popularized it among folk musicians in the 1950s. Later, Janis Joplin sang it. So did the Grateful Dead, James Taylor, and countless others.

My version is pretty different from Bob's, although I am indebted to him for giving me (and all of us) a starting point from which to develop an individual arrangement.

Here are the chord changes I use:


A          A7          G       D7       A    A7
I know you rider gonna miss me when I'm gone,

A          A7          G       D7       A    A7
I know you rider gonna miss me when I'm gone,

      E7                                             A
Gonna miss your lovin' daddy, rollin' round in your arms.


Thank you, Bob, for rescuing this wonderful song from obscurity.

--- Steve