Best Songs Ever

ø 0 at 0 votes
What’s your rating?

▸ Alternative video Spotify

“I Know You Rider” (aka “Woman Blues” and “I Know My Rider”) is a traditional woman’s blues song that has been adapted by numerous artists. Modern versions can be traced back to the song’s appearance in the 1934 book, American Ballads and Folk Songs, by the noted father and son musicologists and folklorists, John Lomax and Alan Lomax. The book notes that “An eighteen-year old black girl, in prison for murder, sang the song and the first stanza of these blues.“ The Lomaxes then added a number of verses from other sources and named it ‘Woman Blue’“. Folk singer Judy Roderick also recorded an influential version of the song under the title “Woman Blue” and it became the title track of her second album, recorded and released by Vanguard in 1965. British folk... Read on...