Click the links in the article titles to read the full pieces, and let us know what we've missed: Sheila Scarborough / FlickrThe New York TimesThe Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie John Jeremiah Sullivan In the world of early-20th-century African-American music and people obsessed by it, who can appear from one angle like a clique of pale and misanthropic scholar-gatherers and from another like a sizable chunk of the human population, there exist no ghosts more vexing than a couple of women identified on three ultrarare records made in 1930 and ’31 as Elvie Thomas and Geeshie Wiley.