Good Grief Charlie Brown, this is Deja Vu all over again. Charley Noble & I just did some totally profound posts on another, which you can see if you refresh to "3 Days" if it's not still up.

Here's the jist: Easy rider is a person of either sex who plays the field; not necessarily a hooker or pimp. Technically the pimp or giggolo who lives off of women who either work for him or hire him would be an "easeman," as in "Natural born easeman don't have to work," which is from the evolved version of "Casey Jones." C. Noble had a reference in one of Carl Sandburg's books that supported all this--I think the other thread was Lyr. Req. Sea Sea Rider [sic]. Seek an' ye shall find.

Seems to me there was a performer named C.C. Ryder in about the fifties, or that could have been sort of an all-purpose persona like "Johnny B. Goode." C.C. un-rider