Level: 2
Tuning: Standard

"See See Rider", also known as "C.C. Rider", "See See Rider Blues" or "Easy Rider", is a popular American 12-bar blues song, originally recorded by Gertrude "Ma" Rainey in 1924. The song uses mostly traditional blues lyrics to tell the story of an unfaithful lover, commonly called an easy rider.

Numerous musicians have recorded their own versions, including Big Bill Broonzy, Mississippi John Hurt, Lead Belly, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Peggy Lee. Broonzy claimed that "when he was about 9 or 10 - that is, around 1908, in the Delta (Jefferson County, Arkansas) - he learned to play the blues from an itinerant songster named "See See Rider", "a former slave, who played a one-string fiddle.

This lesson offers two different arrangements both played in the key of C. The first uses an alternating bass played in a Mississippi John Hurt style. The second uses a monotonic bass played in the style of Mance Lipscomb.