Making ROOTS AND BRANCHES: “Know You Rider”

Person in forest wearing hat, plaid shirt.

“Know You Rider†is about as trad as you can get.  It’s been done innumerable ways by a host of artists with varying lyrics. Its origins are shrouded in mystery. But it’s always been about “(I) know you rider, gonna miss me when I’m gone.†In high school I played the…

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Making ROOTS AND BRANCHES: “Travelin’”

Steve Klingaman standing in sunlit room with windows.

“Travelin’†is the instrumental that follows “Travelin’ Man†as an instrumental journey to follow in the footsteps of the its counterpart. In its incarnation as a featured song of the Montreal band Harlequin in the mid-1970s “Travelin’ Man†was always followed by this roughly five-minute instrumental. Now it’s part of…

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