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Geeshie Wiley

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Geeshie Wiley was an American country blues singer and guitar player who recorded six songs for Paramount Records, issued on three records in April 1930. [1]

53 relations: AllMusic, Blues, Burleson County, Texas, C. W. Stoneking, Carlton Publishing Group, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Casey Bill Weldon, Checotah, Oklahoma, Compilation album, Country blues, Crumb (film), David Johansen, Delta blues, Dexter Romweber, Don Kent (blues historian), Elvie Thomas, Georgia (U.S. state), Grafton, Wisconsin, Guitar, Gullah, Harmony, Houston, Ishmon Bracey, Jack White, Jackson, Mississippi, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Kronos Quartet, Louisiana, Mack McCormick, Medicine show, Memphis Minnie, Motherless Child Blues, Natchez, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Oxford, Mississippi, Papa Charlie McCoy, Paramount Records, Phonograph record, Ransom Riggs, Rhiannon Giddens, Robert Crumb, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, Shaker (album), Singing, Songwriter, South Carolina, Terry Zwigoff, Texas, The New York Times, Third Man Records, ..., Tomorrow Is My Turn (album), United States, Yazoo Records. Expand index (3 more) »

AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Burleson County, Texas

Burleson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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C. W. Stoneking

Christopher William "C.W." Stoneking (born 1974) is an Australian blues singer-songwriter, guitarist and banjo player.

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Carlton Publishing Group

Carlton Publishing Group is a London-based book publisher of illustrated reference, biography, leisure and entertainment books.

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Carolina Chocolate Drops

The Carolina Chocolate Drops are an old-time string band from Durham, North Carolina.

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Casey Bill Weldon

William "Casey Bill" Weldon (December 10, 1909 – c. 1970) was an American country blues musician.

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Checotah, Oklahoma

Checotah is a town in McIntosh County, Oklahoma, United States.

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, either previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers.

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Country blues

Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is acoustic, mainly guitar-driven forms of the blues, that mixes blues elements with characteristics of country and folk.

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Crumb (film)

Crumb is a 1994 documentary film about the noted underground cartoonist Robert Crumb (R. Crumb) and his family.

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David Johansen

David Roger Johansen (sometimes spelled David Jo Hansen; born January 9, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter and actor.

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Delta blues

Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues music.

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Dexter Romweber

John Michael Dexter "Dex" Romweber (born June 18, 1966) is an American rockabilly/roots rock musician (primarily playing electric guitar) from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Don Kent (blues historian)

Donald Theodore "Don" Kent (April 20, 1944 – August 9, 2015) was an American collector of blues and bluegrass recordings, a founder and owner of record labels (such as Mamlish Records, Country Turtle Records, and Flying Crow Records), and a much sought-after writer of liner notes not only on his own labels' issues but also on others', such as Yazoo Records.

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Elvie Thomas

L.V. Thomas (née L.V. Grant, August 7, 1891 – May 20, 1979), better known as Elvie Thomas, was an American country blues singer and guitarist from Houston, Texas.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Grafton, Wisconsin

Grafton is a village in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Gullah

The Gullah are African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of the U.S. states of Georgia and South Carolina, in both the coastal plain and the Sea Islands (including urban Savannah and Charleston).

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Harmony

In music, harmony considers the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.

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Ishmon Bracey

Ishmon Bracey (January 9, 1899 or 1901 – February 12, 1970), sometimes credited as Ishman Bracey, was an American Delta blues singer-guitarist.

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Jack White

John Anthony White (né Gillis; born July 9, 1975) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor.

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Jackson, Mississippi

Jackson, officially the City of Jackson, is the capital city and largest urban center of the U.S. state of Mississippi.

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John Jeremiah Sullivan

John Jeremiah Sullivan (born 1974) is an American writer, musician, teacher, and editor.

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Kronos Quartet

The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco.

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Louisiana

Louisiana is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Mack McCormick

Robert "Mack" McCormick (August 3, 1930 – November 18, 2015) was an American musicologist and folklorist.

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Medicine show

Medicine shows were touring acts (traveling by truck, horse, or wagon teams) which peddled "miracle cure" patent medicines and other products between various entertainments.

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Memphis Minnie

Lizzie Douglas (June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973), known as Memphis Minnie, was a blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter whose recording career lasted from the 1920s to the 1950s.

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Motherless Child Blues

"Motherless Child Blues" (or, in dialect, "Motherless Chile Blues") is the name of two distinctly different traditional blues songs.

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Natchez, Mississippi

Natchez is the county seat and only city of Adams County, Mississippi, United States.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Uukuhuúwa, Gahnawiyoˀgeh) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Oxford, Mississippi

Oxford is a city in, and the county seat of, Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States.

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Papa Charlie McCoy

Charles "Papa Charlie" McCoy (May 26, 1909 – July 26, 1950) was an African-American Delta blues musician and songwriter.

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Paramount Records

Paramount Records was an American record label known for its recordings of jazz and blues in the 1920s and early 1930s, including such artists as Ma Rainey and Blind Lemon Jefferson.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Ransom Riggs

Ransom Riggs (born February 3, 1979) is an American writer and filmmaker best known for the book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

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Rhiannon Giddens

Rhiannon Giddens (born February 21, 1977) is an American musician.

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Robert Crumb

Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943) is an American cartoonist and musician who often signs his work R. Crumb.

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Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus

Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus is a 2003 documentary film about the American South starring Jim White.

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Shaker (album)

Shaker is the second and final album David Johansen recorded with the Harry Smiths.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.

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South Carolina

South Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Terry Zwigoff

Terry Zwigoff (born May 18, 1949) is an American filmmaker whose work often deals with misfits, antiheroes, and themes of alienation.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Third Man Records

Third Man Records is an independent record label founded by Jack White in Detroit, Michigan, in 2001.

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Tomorrow Is My Turn (album)

Tomorrow Is My Turn is the first studio album from Rhiannon Giddens.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Yazoo Records

Yazoo Records was an American record label founded in the late 1960s by Nick Perls.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeshie_Wiley

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