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Special Rider is a blues term for special sexual partner. Unlike the common blues term ‘rider’, the phrase ‘special rider’ is more special: it seems to occur in only four pre-war songs and by implication in a fifth. One of these is Skip James’. Bob Dylan named his music publishing company Special Rider.
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