Greetings again:

The chords for first two lines of my version of I Know You Rider are pretty similar to Bob Coltman's, that is: I - Dorian VII - IV - I. Where we differ is that I use the I7 and IV7 chords in some measures where he stays on the basic I and IV chords. My third line, however, is completely different. Instead of going to the Dorian III and Dorian VII, my version uses the conventional V7 until it resolves back to the I chord.

Note that Robin Greenstein, the late Hedy West's former student and personal assistant, recorded I Know You Rider as a fairly standard blues, using the I7 in place of the Dorian VII in each of the first two lines, and using the V7 back to the I chord as my version does. I borrowed harmonic ideas from both Bob and Robin, but my arrangement is unlike either of theirs.

By the way, except when I'm jamming with others, I've stopped doing the DVR/Dylan version of House of the Rising Sun. Instead I have gone back to either the simpler version that Pete Seeger recorded or the fast and bouncy 4/4 time major key (with flatted 7th) version that Woody Guthrie recorded.

--- Steve