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Most of the tracks on the Easy Rider soundtrack were previously released on other albums by their respective artists. On LP, cassette and reel-to-reel releases of Easy Rider, tracks 1-5 appeared as side 1, and tracks 6-10 as side 2. "The Pusher" – 5:49 Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf (1968) "Born to Be Wild" (Mars Bonfire) – 3:37
Songwriter (s) Shelton Brooks. " I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone? " is a ragtime/blues song written by Shelton Brooks in 1913. Sometimes categorized as hokum, [1] it led to an answer song written in 1915 by W.C. Handy, " Yellow Dog Rag ", later titled " Yellow Dog Blues ". Lines and melody from both songs show up in the 1920s and 1930s in ...
"See See Rider" is a traditional song that may have originated on the black vaudeville circuit. It is similar to "Poor Boy Blues" as performed by Ramblin' Thomas. [3]Jelly Roll Morton recollected hearing the song as a young boy sometime after 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana, when he performed with a spiritual quartet that played at funerals.
Roger McGuinn. Bob Dylan (uncredited) " Ballad of Easy Rider " is a song written by Roger McGuinn, with input from Bob Dylan (although Dylan is not credited as a co-writer), for the 1969 film Easy Rider. [ 1] The song was initially released in August 1969 on the Easy Rider soundtrack album as a Roger McGuinn solo performance. [ 2]
Blues rock duo Hot Tuna included a version of the song titled "Know You Rider" on their debut live album, Hot Tuna, [10] and have played the song live many times since. The song was a staple of the Grateful Dead's live shows from the beginning of the band's existence in 1965. [1]
A Paint horse. I Ride an Old Paint is a traditional American cowboy song, collected and published in 1927 by Carl Sandburg in his American Songbag. [ 1][ 2] Traveling the American Southwest, Sandburg found the song through western poets Margaret Larkin and Linn Riggs. He wrote that the song came to them in Santa Fe from a cowboy who was last ...
Ballad of Easy Rider is the eighth album by the American rock band the Byrds and was released in November 1969 on Columbia Records. [1] The album was named after the song "Ballad of Easy Rider", which had been written by the Byrds' guitarist and singer, Roger McGuinn (with help from Bob Dylan), as the theme song for the 1969 film, Easy Rider. [2]
Ride Captain Ride. " Ride Captain Ride " is a song recorded by the American rock band Blues Image. It was co-written by the band's singer-guitarist Mike Pinera and keyboardist Frank "Skip" Konte and was included on the group's 1970 album, Open. Released as a slightly shortened single in the spring of 1970, it shot up the charts, eventually ...