The Las
The Outlaw Folksinger
MUSIC & PERFORMANCE
He wrote songs powerful enough to get him killed — and they almost did
CALIFORNIA MUSIC HALL OF FAME · SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS · CITED BY THE U.S. CONGRESS
THE ARTIST
The songs were powerful enough to get him killed. They almost did.
The albums are in the Smithsonian. The story is still unfolding.
Inducted into the California Music Hall of Fame, April 14, 2024. Cited by the
United States Congress as a true trailblazer. Governor's Citation, State of
Maryland. Three albums held permanently in the Smithsonian Institution's
Folkways collection.
Green produced the landmark Folkways recording of the historic
confrontation between Bob Dylan and A.J. Weberman on behalf of Broadside
Magazine — subsequently withdrawn from the market and the masters ordered
destroyed following legal action by Dylan's record label.
— Pete Seeger, patriarch of
American Folk Music
N O W B O O K I N G
An Evening With Gary Green
A full concert of original and traditional American
folk music drawn from the Smithsonian recordings
and new work in progress. Woven throughout: the
stories behind the songs — the people, the politics,
and the hidden machinery of American music
history.
Theatres, universities, festivals, casinos, and
performing arts centers. An experience audiences
do not forget.
GROWING UP FOLKWAYS
The Soundtrack of America. Live on Stage.
Charles T. Averett is the last living member of the
original inner circle of Folkways Records — the
small New York label that documented the civil
rights movement, the anti-war movement, Native
American traditions, the labor movement, and the
voices of a changing nation. The Smithsonian
Institution confirmed that legacy by acquiring all
2,168 titles into its permanent collection.
Averett and Gary Green bring that world to the
stage. Two men who were inside it. The stories, the
music, and the hidden history of the recordings
that shaped American culture — told from the
inside, live, with no lecture and no nostalgia.
Available for theatres, universities, festivals,
casinos, and performing arts centers.
ARCHIVED IN THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
Three Albums. One Legendary Archive.
THESE SIX STRINGS
NEUTRALIZE THE
TOOLS OF
OPPRESSION
Folkways FH 5351 · 1976
ALLEGORY — GARY
GREEN VOLUME 2
Folkways FS 5353 · 1977
STILL AT LARGE —
GARY GREEN VOLUME 3
Folkways FS 5356 · 1981
LeClerc Hall · Notre Dame
College · Baltimore, Maryland
FROM THE SAME STAGES
Frank Black (of the Pixies) covered Gary's song "That Burnt
Out Rock 'n' Roll" on his 2003 retrospective 93–03 — the
same song Gary performed at his induction into the
California Music Hall of Fame.
NEW AMERICANA ALBUM NOW IN PRODUCTION
ASCAP (AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS, AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS)
· AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS · COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION
· AMERICANA MUSIC ASSOCIATION · FOLK ALLIANCE
THE LEGEND DIES ON
The songs were only part of the story. The Legend Dies On is the book behind
the music — an account of the life that produced it. Folk hero. Fugitive. Mentor
to Tupac Shakur. Colleague of Pete Seeger, Allen Ginsberg, and Johnny Cash.
The man who produced a notorious Bob Dylan recording and stood with the
American Indian Movement at Wounded Knee — a troubadour for the labor and
civil rights movements at their most dangerous hour.
Available on Amazon and at Barnes & Noble and other fine booksellers.
BOOKING
Book Gary Green
TALENT AGENCY
Talent Concepts Inc.
Musical appearances and
performance bookings.
“Fort Apache, The Bronx" (1981) — the Paul Newman/Ed
Asner film — drew its central concept from Gary Green's
Folkways recording. IMDB credits Green as a musical
composer on the production.
© 2026 Gary Green. All Rights Reserved.
