JOHNNY PIERRE

JOHNNY PIERRE

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About JOHNNY PIERRE

Howdy! I'm a Long Island based singer-songwriter who's been part of the local music scene since 1976. The music I play is best described as Americana Blues music. My creative mission is to create modernistic songs which evoke the immediacy of old time blues and jazz. I guess you could say that I was born to be a musician. My earliest musical memories began in New Orleans where I lived for several years in the early sixties. I clearly remember being engaged by the earthy sounds of Professor Longhair and Fats Domino. My perceptions of music were never the same after living in New Orleans; the sounds and rhythms of that city have stayed within me my entire life. After falling under the spell of the British Invasion in the mid-sixties, I started singing in some local rock & roll bands. My first paid gigs took place while I was a teenage Army brat living in France back in 1966. It was during this period of my life that I started writing my own songs as well. From 1970 to 1974, I attended The University of Dayton in Ohio. While there, my friend Billy Cairns and I assembled a rock combo named the Freelance Vandals. By 1977, I moved to the Long Island area of New York where I became involved in launching a new version of the Freelance Vandals. This band proved to be quite popular on the Long Island music scene and for the next seven years we performed in a wide variety of venues; opening up for such artists as John Hiatt, Dr. John and NRBQ. During this period of my career, my work as the band's lead singer/frontman received accolades in such trade publications as Variety, The Hollywood Press and Creem Magazine. The band released several vinyl record projects during this period; a double 45 rpm collection known as The Dogpak (Dog Records, 1978) and a live album, Yer Money Or Yer Ears (Gunga Din Records, 1984) before disbanding in 1985. In 1996, the Freelance Vandals staged a reunion tour to promote the release of the studio anthology, Songs That Never Made Us Famous (FV Productions, 1996). Over the next decade, I ended up working in numerous bands such as the Mighty Young Fish, Cornbread Boys and the Helpless Bovines. By the late 90's, I began concentrating on songwriting and composing soundtracks for several films. In 1995, I started working with Jeff Goldstein in an Americana Blues band named the BISCUIT KINGS. The band released it's debut album, Hambones & Trombones, in 2011. The album received positive reviews and extensive airplay on americana blues radio stations in the US and in Europe. My latest album release is Prayers Before Sleeping, This album is a collection of Americana blues songs about dreams and how they inhabit and enhance our realities. In many ways, I feel the process of recording music itself is as intimate and real as our dreams. Some of the highlights from the album include "King of the Dead Sea", a song inspired by the upcoming Presidential election and "Song for Levon", a tribute to the late great Levon Helm. Prayers Before Sleeping official release is on Aug. 16th Digital Downloads are available @ ITunes, CD Baby & Amazon Compact Discs are available for secure online purchase in my online store http://johnnypierre.com/store--2

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