Artist: Geeshie Wiley
Author: Geeshie Wiley
Label: Paramount
Year: 1930
According to Greil Marcus in Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations she sounds like she's singing from deep in the ground, like she's been buried alive, like she doesn't mind. The failed quality of the shellac used for this Geechie Wiley record (holding parcels of lamp black, cotton filling and clay from the banks of the Milwaukee River) possibly influenced Marcus' impression.
Covers:
Christine Pizzuti [on American Epic as Last Kind Words]
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss [idem]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)