Sunday, March 23, 2008

Geeshie Wiley

Female blues singer and guitarist - I have only recently gotten into women blues singers and so was pretty ignorant with regards this legendary player who recorded only a half dozen or so sides around 1930 but what songs they are! Recently covered by the Detroit Cobras who did a single in 1996 of 'C'mon Over to My House' - a superb rockabilly version worth tracking down. Anyway this clip is from the Zwigoff Robert Crumb documentary and features Wiley's Last Kind Words, which is well worth a listen. Geeshie Wiley Myspace Lyrics here