I Know You Rider 

Great songs are like their own universes. They are always playing somewhere. "I Know You Rider" is such a song. Pulled from the folk catalog like "Cold Rain and Snow," the Dead played various arrangements of it over their career. Here I am mimicking the 5-19-66 Avalon version, which has a LOT of punk rock drive:  https://archive.org/details/gd1966-05-19.sbd.miller.106683.flac16

I came across this haunting version from Judy Roderick, "Woman Blue (I Know You Rider)." Please check it out:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwIl-7KykuQ

What's your favorite version of "Rider?"

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