geechee recollections (last kind words)

today (and tomorrow) are the anniversaries of the recording of the second of marion brown's georgia trilogy geechee recollections. geechee is (variously) an english creole spoken by black people in parts of south carolina and georgia, a dialect containing english words and words of african origin spoken chiefly by the descendants of african-american slaves settled on the ogeechee river in georgia.

it may be offensive, used as a disparaging term for a person who speaks a nonstandard local dialect, as in savannah, georgia, or charleston, south carolina. although the islands along the southeastern U.S. coast harbor the same collective of west africans, the name gullah has come to be the accepted name of the islanders in south carolina, while geechee refers to the islanders of georgia.

geechee (geshie) is often a nickname taken up by musicians - here's geeshie wiley, probably born lillie mae boone an American country blues singer and guitar player who recorded six songs for Paramount Records, issued on three records in April 1930. last kind word blues is the famous one.