Billie Pierce

Through the ’60s and ’70s, this pianist and vocalist’s far-flung touring activities in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band alongside her husband, trumpeter De De Pierce, produced her perhaps one of the most widely heard performers in the annals of New Orleans jazz. An study of her family members background also signifies that probably she was probably one of the most persistent: even though both her parents and a total of seven sisters also performed piano, the performer who had become referred to as Billie Pierce insisted on teaching the key pad to herself. She was created Wilhelmina Goodson, the surname something of the rallying cry for traditional blues piano in the heyday from the Gulf Coast’s Roaring Twenties music picture. As Billie Goodson, this performer tickled the piano secrets for traditional blues empress Bessie Smith at a theatre in Pensacola in the first part of this decade, and in addition worked well in the rings of Alphonse Picou, Emile Barnes, and George Lewis. There is also Ida Goodson, who spent the majority of her existence playing piano in the Pensacola region, and Sadie Goodson, who like her sister Billie shifted towards the livelier actions of New Orleans. The sisters frequently performed in so-called honky tonks, which Preservation Hall became most well-known, uplifting a combo which has continued to be a supreme ambassador from the historical New Orleans little combo sound. It had been a venue known as the Blue Jay Golf club that was of all importance to Goodson and Pierce as well, however. This is where trumpeter and vocalist De De Pierce fulfilled Billie Goodson in the middle ’30s — they dropped in like and started an organization collectively, which became the home music group at Luthjen’s Dance Hall, the website of some superb live documenting activity in the ’50s. This designer shouldn’t be confused using the reed participant Billy Pierce, who started documenting in the ’70s.