Billy Joe Green is an Anishinaabe rock and blues musician from Canada.Eugene Chadbourne, "Billy Joe Green". Allmusic. 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,"Our Lady Peace hears Juno call; CTV pushing to raise the music bar for its April 14 show". Waterloo Region Record, February 12, 2002. at the Juno Awards of 2006 for Muskrat Blues and Rock & Roll"Nickelback still band to beat at Junos". Peterborough Examiner, April 1, 2006. and at the Juno Awards of 2009 for First Law of the Land."2009 Juno Awards nominees". The Globe and Mail, February 3, 2009.
Green, a member of the Lac Seul First Nation from Kejick Bay, was the son of David Green, a country musician."Winnipeg's Billy Joe Green – 50 Years on the Music Scene". Manitoba Post, December 28, 2017. A survivor of the Indian residential school system, he turned to music as an outlet for healing.Cam Fuller, "A father's inspiration; Bluesman Billy Joe Green to release new CD this weekend", Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, September 27, 2007. 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. He has since released eight further CDs.
Green has also won two Indigenous Music Awards, and a Western Canadian Music Award.
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)
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