Billy Joe Green is an Anishinaabe rock and blues musician from Canada.
[1] 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,[2] at the Juno Awards of 2006 for Muskrat Blues and Rock & Roll[3] and at the Juno Awards of 2009 for First Law of the Land.
[4] Green, a member of the Lac Seul First Nation from Kejick Bay,[1] was the son of David Green, a country musician.
[5] A survivor of the Indian residential school system, he turned to music as an outlet for healing.
[6] 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.