Billy Joe Green

Website: www.billyjoegreen-band.com

Billy Joe GreenFor over three decades, Billy Joe has worked as a bandleader and sideman from coast to coast of Canada and the USA, playing the blues and paying the dues.

"An incredibly talented, diverse and well-traveled musician" writes John Scoles for SCENE Roots & Blues Magazine....

One of Canada's Premier Blues Guitar Slingers, winner of numerous awards, and nominated for a JUNO, Billy Joe's third indie CD is in the bag, and due to be released in January 2004.

Billy Joe Green is from the Moose Clan of the Kejick Ojibway Nation located on the most north-westerly section of the beautiful Lake of the Woods, Canada. Home base is currently Winnipeg, MB.

"Way back in the woods, among the evergreens" is where Billy Joe first heard the soothing, comforting, thick chords and melodies of his dad, David Green's guitar.

Dad sang the country blues standards of Jimmie Rogers, Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb and Wilf Carter. Uncles Cecil, Fred and especially 'the talking guitar' of Robert 'A-go' Green, along with brother Richie, helped fuel the fire within the young musician.

Still in his teens, Billy Joe was asked by guitarist, Martin Tuesday, to join The FEATHERMEN, a fiery young group of primarily Ojibway musicians.He jumped at the chance. At entry level, he became the second guitarist,but soon learned all the songs and was exchanging lead guitar lines withMartin Tuesday, a very progressive musician for his time.

Soon the elder members of the band came of age and joined the thenflourishing ranks of bar room musicians. Billy Joe, still tender in years, was asked to join another bar band. Armed with only a 1964 Les Paul Jr., sunglasses and no I.D., he moved ahead quickly in the ranks, learning howto play, live and survive the life of a bluesman.

Carrying on the family tradition, Billy Joe's son Jesse plays guitar and his daughter Rikki Lee plays bass for their own band, called 'Killah Green'