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