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Billy Joe Green

For 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 newest CD "Muskrat Blues and Rock & Roll", has garnered him another Juno nomination in 2006.

B
illy Joe Green aka "Osawi Kinew" is from the Bear clan of the Anishinabe Aki territory.

Billy Joe earned his no frills approach as a rockin' swaggering sideman for such acts as THE FEATHERMEN, JACK'S SCOUTS, CHEZ BOJECK, WHYTEFEATHER, KID SILVER BAND, WILL JOE TRAVEL EXPEDITION, PERCY TUESDAY, ROBBIE BRASS and countless other than main stream configurations of bluesy, rockin', high voltage, loud and progressive bands.



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

Still in his teens, Billy Joe was asked by guitarist Martin Tuesday to join
"The Feathermen", a fiery young group of primarily Ojibway musicians.
Jumping at the chance he entered the group as second guitar, but soon
learned all the songs and was quickly exchanging lead guitar lines with
Martin Tuesday.

Soon after as the elder members became of age and joined ranks with
flourishing bar bands, Billy Joe armed only with a pair of sunglasses and a 1964
Les Paul Jr., advanced quickly into the ranks of learning how to play and
survive in the life of a bluesman.

Carrying on the family tradition, Billy Joe's son, Jesse plays guitar with his
sister Rikki Lee (Bass) for their ever evolving band "X-Status".


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