I Know You Rider

It was not recorded by John Lomax, the folklorist who went around to prisons and recorded a bunch of these songs.

But that's where you get I Know You Rider from.

It is someone imagining... a life of kind of a footloose life that she will probably never leave because she is in prison for murder.

And that's all we know about her.

His singing is great.

But what really stood out for me, Howie, was this I Know You Rider.

I could not believe it.

This was the last song I heard before this interview.

You know, I was sitting in my car, I got back from lunch, and the I Know You Rider was blaring really loud.

And I could not believe how hot the first lead was.

Fabulous.

A reviewer for The Golden Road heard plenty of horror stories afterward, but he saw no hassles himself, which he found remarkable given the size of it.

The dead played one set on their own, Long and generous, with China Cat Sunflower rolling into I Know You Rider and a Terrapin station the reviewer singled out.

Then Dylan came out, in a red jacket and a black beret, and opened with Tangled Up in Blue.

The band played it the way the Jerry Garcia band played it, and Dylan half chanted, half shouted the verses, almost like rap, with Jerry joining in at the end of each one.

All right, here's how the game works.

We'll play the first part of a Grateful Dead live track, and each contestant will use the messaging system to silently guess which year the performance is from.

Contestants, who are all in a video conference together, can message in their guesses at any time during the clip or in the 10 seconds after it concludes.

Whoever is furthest from the correct year is eliminated.

How about a China rider? Yes, exactly.

China Cat I Know You Rider to end this set is a monster version.

The days of first set China Riders are numbered and this has to be a top five first set version ever.

To the tour book for a set ending, explosive China Rider combo.

We fall comfortably into the rider with plenty more jamming potential.

It is a total band effort, giving each member a chance to shine.

The China Cat Sunflower I Know You Rider combination serves as the de facto report card for the set.

Hell, give them all A's, even without the curve.

Twenty-two shows between April seventh and May twenty-sixth, nineteen seventy-two, the run that became the triple live record every Deadhead owns, whether they meant to buy it or not.

Listen to the China Cat into I Know You Rider from that spring or any of the playing in the bands, and Keith is everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

He is not soloing over the top of the band.

He is threading through it.

Um, it- so, like, there, there are things that kinda, like, lend themselves to each other.

So, like, you know how, uh, I can't remember what, uh, like, I think it's, like, China Cat, Sunflower, and, uh, I Know You Rider-

Mm-hmm

... or something like Grateful Dead, they sort of, like, always, like, paired together in a set list.