I KNOW YOU RIDER

Created on 17/07/2008
Latest update on 02/01/2024

Artist: Tossi Aaron
Author: traditional
Label: Prestige International
Year: 1960

Member of the Philadelphia folk scene on lp Tossi Sings Folk Songs And Ballads.

Covers:

1960:

Joan Baez [outtake first album as bonus on cd version in 2001]

1963:

Judy Henske [single]

1963:

Kingston Trio

1963:

Big 3 [with Mama Cass]

1964:

Fred Neil & Vince Martin

1966:

Byrds

1966:

John Renbourn [as I Know My Babe]

1966:

Big Brother & The Holding Company [with Janis Joplin; posthumously on live album Cheaper Thrills]

1967:

Youngbloods

1970:

Hot Tuna

1972:

Grateful Dead

1974:

Seldom Scene

1977:

Sonny Landreth

1980:

Judy Larson

1996:

Bruce Hornsby

The chorus follows lyrically Woman Blue from Lomax' book American Ballads And Folk Songs ('34). The rest is made up of floating verses from other blues songs as Maggie Campbell (Tommy Johnson), KC Moan (Memphis Jug Band) and The Sun Gonna Shine In My Backdoor Someday (Big Bill Broonzy).

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