"Easy Rider", also known as "C.C. Rider", "See See Rider Blues" or "See See Rider", is an American 12-bar blues song, originally recorded by Gertrude "Ma" Rainey in 1924. Numerous musicians later 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 he learned to play the blues from an itinerant songster named "See See Rider". Other renditions were recorded by the Youngbloods, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, the Who, the Everly Brothers, the Kingsmen, Ian & Sylvia, Janis Joplin, Cher, John Fahey and others. The song was referenced but not quoted in Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America. It was printed in John and Alan Lomax's Best Loved American Folk Songs.