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THE LAST AMERICAN ORIGINAL
He walked through the
hidden machinery
of American life.
From Greenwich Village coffee houses to congressional offices, Native American
reservations to casino boardrooms, Silicon Valley back rooms to Southern
newsrooms; and the adventures never stop.
"Hell, there should be a Ballad of Gary Green."
— PETE SEEGER
FOUR LIVES. ONE MAN.
01
Three albums in the Smithsonian
Folkways permanent collection.
California Music Hall of Fame Inductee.
Cited by the U.S. Congress and by
Governor of Maryland. Praised by
Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger, and Waylon
Jennings.
Outlaw Folksinger
02
Twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in
journalism before age thirty. Author of
more than twenty books spanning noir
fiction, nonfiction exposé, and Americana
storytelling.
Journalist & Author
03
Developer of almost two-dozen casinos
across the country. VP of Marketing, The
Trump Organization. Creator of the
patented Slot-Driven Zero-Based
Budgeting methodology used across
tribal and commercial gaming properties
nationwide.
Casino Innovator
04
An Evening With Gary Green plays
theatres, festivals, and universities across
the country. One man. Five decades of
American life told from the inside, in the
first person, without apology.
Storyteller & Speaker
ALSO: CIRCUS OWNER · BROADWAY-STYLE PRODUCER · BUSINESS STRATEGIST · TECHNOLOGY PIONEER · AND OTHERS
T H E B I O G R A P H Y
Born in Hamlet, North Carolina — a railroad crossroads
town where the lines of the Seaboard Air Line Railway
converged from four directions — and raised in the hills
of Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina, Gary Green
carries the sound and the scars of the American South
in everything he has ever written or sung. His image
runs closer to Johnny Cash than to any other
touchstone: the outlaw code, the moral seriousness, the
refusal to separate the personal from the political. He
served his apprenticeship covering murders, drug raids,
and government corruption as a daily newspaper
reporter in the South, and simultaneously singing folk-
acoustic outlaw country songs in the Greenwich Village
coffee houses where the American protest tradition had
been keeping itself alive since Woody Guthrie.
Every chapter of his life is resistance against something.
The music was resistance against cultural conformity
and political complacency. The journalism was
resistance against institutional corruption and the
powerful people who depended on its absence. The
casino work was resistance against the systematic
economic exclusion of Native American communities,
whose sovereign lands and treaty rights had been
dishonored for generations before gaming offered a
path toward genuine self-determination. That thread
runs unbroken across six decades, and it is what
separates a remarkable set of credentials from a
coherent life's argument.
A coherent life's argument,
six decades in the making.
CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING
LIVE PERFORMANCE
An Evening With Gary Green
An Evening With Gary Green is different
every time. Part performance, part
storytelling, part insider revelation, drawn
from five decades inside American music,
journalism, gaming, and politics. The songs
have stories behind them. The stories have
songs inside them. Always the man who
was actually there.
NOW BOOKING
Gary Green Talks
Business strategy, branding, technology,
and a front-row seat to the making of the
Trump brand. Keynotes and seminars that
have anticipated industry shifts by years,
delivered by one of the most entertaining
and unpredictable minds on the corporate
speaking circuit.
WITH CHARLES AVERETT
Growing Up Folkways
A live multimedia stage production
celebrating the legacy of Smithsonian
Folkways Recordings with two insiders
who lived it. Gary Green and Charles
Averett weave historical narrative with
music, exploring the artists and recordings
that shaped America.
UPCOMING: NEW AMERICANA MUSIC ALBUM · “TRUST ME” — A NEW BOOK ON FINANCIAL DECEPTION
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