'''Billy Joe Green''' is an Anishinaabe rock and blues musician from Canada.<ref name=chadbourne>Eugene Chadbourne, [https://www.allmusic.com/artist/billy-joe-green-mn0001943444 "Billy Joe Green"]. ''Allmusic''.</ref> 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'',<ref>"Our Lady Peace hears Juno call; CTV pushing to raise the music bar for its April 14 show". ''Waterloo Region Record'', February 12, 2002.</ref> at the Juno Awards of 2006 for ''Muskrat Blues and Rock & Roll''<ref>"Nickelback still band to beat at Junos". ''Peterborough Examiner'', April 1, 2006.</ref> and at the Juno Awards of 2009 for ''First Law of the Land''.<ref>"2009 Juno Awards nominees". ''The Globe and Mail'', February 3, 2009.</ref>
Green, a member of the Lac Seul First Nation from Kejick Bay,<ref name=chadbourne/> was the son of David Green, a country musician.<ref name=post>[https://www.manitobapost.com/winnipeg-events/winnipegs-billy-joe-green-50-years-on-the-music-scene-112960 "Winnipeg's Billy Joe Green – 50 Years on the Music Scene"]. ''Manitoba Post'', December 28, 2017.</ref> A survivor of the Indian residential school system, he turned to music as an outlet for healing.<ref>Cam Fuller, "A father's inspiration; Bluesman Billy Joe Green to release new CD this weekend", ''Saskatoon Star-Phoenix'', September 27, 2007.</ref> 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.<ref name=post/> He has since released eight further CDs.<ref name=post/>
Green has also won two Indigenous Music Awards, and a Western Canadian Music Award.<ref name=post/>
==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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