Geeshie Wiley (sometimes rendered as Geechie Wiley) was an obscure female
United States blues singer and guitar player. She recorded three disc
records in the early 1930s.
Ishman Bracey (whose testimony may or may not be accurate) said that Wiley
was from Natchez, Mississippi or nearby, and at one time or another
romantically linked to Papa Charlie McCoy. She is rumored to have worked
in a medicine show in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1920s. Wiley may have
been married to Casey Bill Weldon for a time, following his divorce from
Memphis Minnie.
Wiley recorded "Last Kind Word Blues" and "Skinny Leg Blues" in Grafton,
Wisconsin for Paramount Records in March of 1930, with Elvie Thomas
backing her on second guitar. (Thomas also recorded two songs for
Paramount at the session, "Motherless Child Blues" and "Over to My House,"
with someone, presumably Wiley, providing second guitar and vocal
harmonies.) In 1931 Wiley and Thoma
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Geechie Wiley,