Billy Joe Green is an Anishinaabe rock and blues musician from Canada.[1] He is most noted as a three-time Juno Award nominee for Indigenous Music Album of the Year, receiving nominations at the Juno Awards of 2002 for My Ojibway Experience: Strength & Hope,[2] at the Juno Awards of 2006 for Muskrat Blues and Rock & Roll[3] and at the Juno Awards of 2009 for First Law of the Land.[4]

Green, a member of the Lac Seul First Nation from Kejick Bay,[1] was the son of David Green, a country musician.[5] A survivor of the Indian residential school system, he turned to music as an outlet for healing.[6] He launched his own musical career in the late 1960s with the band The Feathermen, although he did not record an album until Roughin' It in 1996.[5] He has since released eight further CDs.[5]

Green has also won two Indigenous Music Awards, and a Western Canadian Music Award.[5]

Discography

  • Roughin' It (1996)
  • My Ojibway Experience: Strength & Hope (2000)
  • Muskrat Blues and Rock & Roll (2004)
  • The Best of Billy Joe Green (2008)
  • First Law of the Land (2008)
  • String Twister: Billy Joe Green Hits & Misses (2010)
  • Swingin' Tomahawk (2013)
  • Fender Bender (2017)
  • The Feathermen Family: Keeping The Circle Strong, Vol. One (2019)

References

  1. 1 2 Eugene Chadbourne, "Billy Joe Green". Allmusic.
  2. ↑ "Our Lady Peace hears Juno call; CTV pushing to raise the music bar for its April 14 show". Waterloo Region Record, February 12, 2002.
  3. ↑ "Nickelback still band to beat at Junos". Peterborough Examiner, April 1, 2006.
  4. ↑ "2009 Juno Awards nominees". The Globe and Mail, February 3, 2009.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Winnipeg's Billy Joe Green – 50 Years on the Music Scene". Manitoba Post, December 28, 2017.
  6. ↑ Cam Fuller, "A father's inspiration; Bluesman Billy Joe Green to release new CD this weekend", Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, September 27, 2007.
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