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Album Details
- Artist: Geeshie Wiley
- Single: Last Kind Words / Skinny Leg Blues
- Label: Paramount
- Year of Release: 1930
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on 2011-11-19 CharlesMartel Said:
Although Geeshie Wiley was one of the leading female blues singers of the 1920s and 1930s, today she is all but forgotten. This is largely because she recorded only three records and no known photographs of her exist. We don't even know her real name. But in " Last Kind Words " we have a unique record of a talented and innovative blues singer. The song is about the final exchange between a woman and her lover who is about to leave for war. Wiley delivers the words with a passion, a sort of fearful cry stifled lest it unnerve her departing lover. This is one truly great early blues song, with some great guitar plucking by Elvie Thomas and sung to perfection by Wiley. It is a pity that she was not more recorded for this is one of the very few recordings of her work.
Rating: 9/10
