Here is a draft of my songs for the upcoming CD:

12. I Know You Rider (traditional, adapted & arranged by Steve Suffet © 2008; 2:55). 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. John and Alan Lomax collected the original version from the singing of an 18-year female prisoner in the 1930s.

I welcome suggestions, but please remember that space is limited. If I add any text, I need to delete a like amount.

The copyright notice only extends to my own arrangement, of course. The place that makes my CDs requires that I submit an intellectual property declaration along with mechanical licenses and/or copyright registrations for every song, including any in the public domain. I find it easiest to burn a CD-R with tracks of all the PD songs I am using, and then submit it to the US Copyright Office as a unit, along with a Form PA registration and a check for $45.

Did I actually add any new material to I Know You Rider, as required to claim a copyright? My answer on Form PA is "Musical arrangements for voices and instruments, and editorial revisions of words (includig order of verses, and addition or deletion of text)."

--- Steve