Awards

Tuesday December 30, 2008

2006 Aboriginal People's Choice Music Awards Winner
BEST BLUES CD

2006 Juno Awards Nominee
ABORIGINAL RECORDING OF THE YEAR

2005 Western Canadian Music Awards Nominee
OUTSTANDING ABORIGINAL RECORDING
OUTSTANDING BLUES RECORDING

2005 Indian Summer Music Awards Nominee
BEST BLUES RECORDING
BEST ROCK RECORDING

2002 Juno Awards Nominee
BEST MUSIC OF ABORIGINAL CANADA RECORDING

2001 Prairie Music Awards Winner
OUTSTANDING ABORIGINAL RECORDING
Also nominated for outstanding Album Design of the Year

2001 The Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards Winner
BEST MALE ARTIST
Also nominated for the best instrumental album and best blues or jazz album

Winnipeg Free Press's Jeff Monk
Reviews Billy Joe's Best of CD

Sunday December 30,2007

Billy Joe Green is one of those seemingly ageless Manitoba Bluesmen who toil in relative obscurity, but continue to please audiences as far as their semi-reliable vehicles will take them. THE BEST OF BILLY JOE GREEN collects 10 HOT TRACKS (and one newly recorded bonus number) from three of Green's albums, and it's a doozie of a set. Billy Joe has a startingly raw guitar tone that he corrals into making some wonderfully hellacious sounds, full of sustain and personality. The dynamics of a track like SOUL SEARCH with it's careening Stratocaster howls and wild dive bombs can be compared to what Jeff Beck has been doing lately, and that's a tall order. By pushing contemporary blues to it's sonic limit and avoiding tired cliches, Billy Joe Green has created a boisterous body of work.
**** - JEFF MONK

thanx Jeff Monk fer the kind words,...the recognition you have given us is most encouraging and i must now make sure our upcoming CD is of equal listening value to our fans.
- Billy Joe Green