C. C. Rider

C. C. Rider is a popular American 12-bar blues"^[1] song, originally recorded by Gertrude "Ma" Rainey in 1924,  and is considered a traditional.

The song is a blues song that tells the story of an unfaithful lover, as many songs of the period do.  It is one of the early blues songs that set the standard for those who came later, repeating the familiar patterns that make the blues a specific type of music.

C.C. Rider has been widely recorded by many different artists.   These include Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, The Who, The Everly Brothers, Charlie Rich, Ian & Sylvia, Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, Leon Thomas, Snooks Eaglin, John Fahey and Old Crow Medicine Show, among others.

And it is here, done in its traditional style, with a twinge of those 1920’s style with the ukulele and accompanied also by the harmonica.