Geeshie Wiley

This article evolved from my radio programm ROOTS where i made a special about Geeshie Wiley. Playlist at bottom of this page. Until 1994 Geeshie Wiley remained virtually unknown, for 64 years she has disappeared – that makes Greil Marcus essay „Disappearence and forgetting“ quite appropriate. During the last twenty years there have been people […]

Omie Wise

In meiner letzten Sendung, habe ich verschiedene Versionen des Songs Omie Wise gespielt. Hier einige Informationen dazu: OMIE WISE Come all good people, I’d have you draw near, A sorrowful story you quickly shall hear; A story I’ll tell you about Omie Wise, How she was deluded by Lewis’s lies. She promised to marry and […]