Biography

Biography

"Hell There Should Be a Ballad of Gary Green"
― legendary folksinger Pete Seeger

Gary Green at 50

Gary Green At 50

On the cutting edge of the 1970s avant-garde twilight zone between coming of age baby boomers and the rest of America, one week Gary would be at the side of a veteran member of Congress giving policy or strategic advice and the next week in Greenwich Village playing guitar in one of the dimly-lit, crowd-packed coffee houses.

Gary's old friend and mentor Congress Joe L. Evins of Tennessee

The Baltimore Sun best described Gary's ability to touch, convince, and motivate broad-based audiences:

"Mr. Green had them: a young couple with a three-week old baby, a couple well into middle age…and approximately equal numbers of those who seemed to remember the Fifties, and those who looked to have been children in the Sixties, not of them."

Born in North Carolina and raised in the hills of Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia, Gary Green is a braided paradox of simple, working-class Southerners and the high-tech, urban intelligentsia. With a southern charm more akin to John "Doc" Holiday and Rhett Butler than Jeff Foxworthy and the redneck set, he is often referred to as one of the last southern gentleman scoundrels.

He served his apprenticeship singing folkie acoustic versions of Hank Williams , Waylon Jennings, and Johnny Cash songs in New York City folk circles and as a daily newspaper reporter in the South covering the goriest of murders, drug raids, and government corruptions.

	Poster from a Gary Green concert in a folk music package show, circa 1980
Gary on a promotional tour for his third album, circa 1980.

With a lifestyle reminiscent of the fantasy-world of 1940s matinee cinema noir serials — even down to his trademark fedora — Gary soars from exploit to adventure to escapade chronicling a myriad of romantic episodes in prose and lyric.

Often a lecturer or guest speaker at Internet trade shows, colleges, high schools, Universities, community groups, clubs and churches, Gary's Southern folksy charm disarms and relaxes a crowd as he spins them into a calculated web of entertainment or persuasion.

And his escapades as a professional card counter and gambler in the early 1980s rival the best rat-pack era Vegas stories and color; not to mention his 2005 stint in the World Series of Poker.

A walking compendium of vast but highly varied life experiences, Gary writes (or tells) an edge-of-your-seat descriptive adventure that engulfs the readers or listeners and transports them into whatever world he navigates.

At the same time, he is a results-oriented senior-level executive with a proven track record of accomplishments; one of the few master practitioners of subliminal motivation and persuasion (an art form that from time to time unsettles some of the less-progressive and more oppressive elements); a seasoned professional in media placement, state-of-the-art targeted marketing, writing, politics, financial & budget development & oversight, and administration.

His byline has appeared more than 1,000 times in daily newspapers and national magazines and his voice has been heard by more than 10-million people on national and satellite-feed radio and television.

	Gary & folk legend Pete Seeger after a concert on Seeger's Sloop Clearwater, circa 1976
Gary & civil rights singer/organizer Reverend Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick prepare for a concert circa 1977.
	Gary's friend Phil Ochs, co-founder with Gary, Seeger, and Broadside Magazine of the I Hear America Singing Topical Music Project, circa 1974 just before Phil's death.
Gary reading after returning to the South from the siege of Wounded Knee, circa 1972

From organizing a topical music project with Broadside Magazine, Pete Seeger, and the late folksingers Phil Ochs and Rev. Fred Kirkpatrick, to allegedly "running guns" for Native Americans at the siege of Wounded Knee to passing in and out of the "Berlin Wall" in old East Germany, to mid-night drug raids in the company of heavily armed southern cops, to early morning Washington meetings with members of Congress and heads of state, to creation of new Internet technologies to being a professional gambler and later a casino executive…the world of Gary Green is a world of adventure. This site gives you just a taste of some of those adventures.