as he is both proud and ashamed to be seen with a woman known to be an "easy rider" while at the same time trying to hitchhike a ride. After contributing his own music to the motion picture Easy Rider, Jimi Hendrix was inspired to write a song of the same name on his album The Cry of Love originally released in 1971. The spelling of the song title was altered to "Ezy Ryder," possibly indicating that the person in the song is named Ezy Ryder. Notes and references Slang