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Uploaded on May 24, 2009

Recorded circa March 1930 in Grafton, Wisconsin. Don Kent has described "Last Kind Words" as "one of the most imaginatively constructed guitar arrangements of its era...."


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  • neoprankster

    neoprankster 2 years ago

    I first heard this in the movie "Crumb."

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  • calanero

    calanero 1 year ago

    <MASTERPIECE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This song is so disturbingly brilliant.... i am a pretty decent guitarist and take it from me, the way this gal is strumming these weird notes & rhythms, all the while i believe she's singing and strumming at the same time.... believe me when i tell you, this is really hard to play and sing @ the same time... it's even hard to just play it, but to sing on top AMAZING!!!!!!!! Go Geeshie & thanks Robert Crumb for putting me on to her

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  • darren mcallister

    darren mcallister 3 weeks ago

    FANTASTIC. david johannsen does great version of this in film 'SEARCHIN FOR THE WRONG EYED JESUS'

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  • Shane Norman

    Shane Norman 1 month ago

    Here's some consolation for you, calanero. According to John Jeremiah Sullivan (essay: "Unknown Bards", published in "Pulphead". Vintage, 2012), both Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas play guitar on this. He guesses Elvie is playing slide, in counterpoint to Geeshie's strumming.

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  • Alma Karuv

    Alma Karuv 1 month ago

    this is one of my favorite songs in the world MASTERPIECE really great song the words and melody are perfect she is a such a wonderful singer

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  • methylcyclohexane

    methylcyclohexane 1 month ago

    Fucking hell. I got goosepimples at the first line. This is haunting

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  • BanjoDow

    BanjoDow 2 months ago

    yeah i recall reading she was just the singer. truly a hauntingly beautiful song though.

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  • sleestack808

    sleestack808 2 months ago

    this isnt the original?

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  • tessatschidajones

    tessatschidajones 2 months ago

    thats what brought me here too!

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  • weatheranddarkness

    weatheranddarkness 2 months ago

    just heard about this on The Vinyl Cafe

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  • mattmurfy

    mattmurfy 3 months ago

    That's amazing, considering the recording was more than 10 years later. Thanks for the info., as I previously assumed the man she sings about was a sailor or something. A shame that she only recorded on a couple of sessions, considering the few songs she did record are such gems.

    I read that they were with Charlie Patton at the studio.

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