According to the blues researchers Bob Eagle and Eric S. LeBlanc, Goosby may have been born in Pinehurst, Georgia.
[7] At the same recording sessions, probably on June 14, 1923, Peer also recorded "The Pawn Shop Blues", sung by Lucille Bogan, and Goosby singing her own composition "Grievous Blues", for which she accompanied herself on the piano, with a trumpet part[8] played by Henry Mason.
[12] Goosby recorded another version of "Grievous Blues" and five more songs in September and October of that year, all of which were released by Okeh.
[13][15] One of these was "Fortune Teller Blues", by Levi B. Byron and originally recorded by Geneva Gray on November 4, 1926.
Later recordings by Martha Copeland, Viola McCoy, and Rosa Henderson was of another song with the same title, which was composed by Porter Grainger.