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Geeshie Wiley
12+ albums
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Geeshie Wiley (sometimes rendered as Geechie Wiley) was an American female blues singer and guitar player. There are no known photographs or images of her. She recorded with Elvie Thomas in the early 1930s. Wiley's biographical details are limited and the few details recalled in various sources are contradictory. The nickname "Geechie" or "Geechee" was most commonly given to people from around coastal South Carolina and Georgia, and is an alternate name for the Gullah ethnic group of that region. Robert "Mack" McCormick, an American musicologist and folklorist, has claimed to have visited Wiley's former home, and spoken to members of her immediate family, while carrying out fieldwork in Oklahoma. McCormick also interviewed Wiley's recording partner Elvie Thomas in Texas in 1961, and was told that her first name was Lillie Mae. Ishman Bracey (whose testimony may not be reliable) stated Wiley hailed from Natchez, Mississippi, and was romantically linked to Papa Charlie McCoy. It is thought that in the 1920s she worked in a medicine show in Jackson, Mississippi. Some suggests that Wiley may have married Casey Bill Weldon following his divorce from Memphis Minnie. The singer and bass player Herbert Wiley, of Oxford, Mississippi, told Ted Gioia that Geeshie Wiley was a cousin on his father's side, and that the family had farmed in South Carolina; Wiley's father said that he thought Geeshie had died in 1938 or 1939. Herbert believed that she was possibly buried in the family buri
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Presenting Geeshie Wiley
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The Return Of The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
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When The Levee Breaks: Mississippi Blues Rare Cuts 1926-1941 (CD A)
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Paramount Blues - Lock and Key Blues
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Mississippi Masters: Early American Blues Classics 1927 - 35
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Chimpin' The Blues
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I Can't Be Satisfied: Early American Blues Singers Vol. 1 - Country
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Sinners (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
American Primitive Vol. II: Pre-War Revenants (1897-1939)
American Epic: The Collection
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Before the Blues, Volume 2