Willie Green

Willie Green, Delta bluesman was born in Montgomery, Alabama in the early 1930s, and worked for many years with a rural share cropping family. He learned the blues early on in his teens when he would hitchhike or hop a freight train to town to hear the old blues masters in the juke joints. He is self taught on both harmonica and guitar and has opened shows for John Hammond Jr (who calls him "the real deal"), John Lee Hooker Jr, James Cotten, Eddie Kirkland, and many others including an outdoor opener at Veterans Coloseum for Eric Clapton. He now lives in Ocala, Fl and plays regularly at the Yearling Restaurant in Cross Creek, Fl. Cross Creek is best known for being the home of author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. She wrote many of her stories while living there, including the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Yearling, which was made into a 1946 film of the same name, and her memoir, Cross Creek, which was made into a film in 1983.