Geechie Wiley & Elvie Thomas's lyrics & chords

GEESHIE WILEY / ELVIE THOMAS Although Geeshie Wiley is regarded by some musicologists as having been one of the rural South's finest female blues singers and musicians, almost nothing is known of her. She was born in Mississippi, in or close to Natchez, around 1900. Nothing at all is recorded about her early life but she was working the medicine show/circus circuit around the Jackson area by the early 1920's. It is possible that she was married at some time to Kansas Joe McCoy, second husband of Memphis Minnie, and she was also romanticall...read more