Debbie Green

Debbie Green was an American folk singer. She was born in New York City in 1940 and grew up on Staten Island.[1] She was one of the first folk performers at the Club 47 Mount Auburn in Cambridge, Massachusetts before moving to Berkeley, California in 1960.

This article is about the American folk singer. For the American volleyball player, see Debbie Green-Vargas.

Career background

Green played the ukulele, guitar, electric bass and piano. (Bob Dylan allegedly described her as “a great piano player”.)[1]

While a freshman at Boston University, Green taught Joan Baez guitar and Baez has noted her influence as a teacher.[2] Other observers claim that Baez was a Green imitator and turned Green into an apparent Baez imitator.[3][4] Eric Andersen has said that Green taught both him and Eric Clapton fingerpicking.[1] Allegedly too pretty to be taken seriously, and with her style adopted by others, Green never recorded an album under her own name. She recorded only one song during her heyday, "Who's Going to Be My Man".[4][5] Motherhood and pulmonary health problems put her singing career on hold.[1]

Personal life

She married folk musician Eric Andersen and they had a daughter, Sari Andersen Bouret.[1][6]

Eric Andersen announced on his Facebook page that she died December 9, 2017, the same date (in 1999) as Rick Danko, his former bandmate and friend.[7]

References
  1. "Debbie Green Out of the Shadows Archived 2018-03-11 at the Wayback Machine" by Don Graham. April 9, 2017. Accessed December 17, 2017.
  2. "Joan Baez on Inside Llewyn Davis, folk's early days, and what it's like performing now" by Kevin Ferguson. June 26, 2014. Accessed December 17, 2017.
  3. "Whatever Happened to Debbie Green?" by Jim Motavalli. Accessed December 17, 2017.
  4. "Real Life Rock Top Ten by Greil Marcus.The Believer. July/August 2011.
  5. Debbie Green discography
  6. "Coming together for my Mom, Debbie Green".
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