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Thread #24774   Message #2880807
Posted By: PoppaGator
06-Apr-10 - 01:05 PM
Thread Name: What does 'CC Rider' mean?
Subject: RE: What does 'CC Rider' mean?
I wish I knew how to edit Wikipedia.

"China/Rider," in Deadheadspeak, refers to the band's usual juxtaposition of "China Cat Sunflower" and "I Know You Rider" as a 2-song medley.

As discussed ad infinitum in a long, informative, and throughly enjoyable Mudcat thread that was just recently refreshed, the song "I Know You Rider" is NOT, by any stretch, the same song as "CC Rider" (or "Easy Rider").

It can't even be validly described as "The Grateful Dead's version of 'C.C. Rider'." It's Bob Coltman's setting of some lyrics gleaned from an Alan Lomax book, which became of sort of US-folk-revival standard widely familiar in the beatnik-folkie circles from which emerged the Grateful Dead:

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