Chicago native Jim Green creates relaxing to percussively driven solo finger-style acoustic guitar instrumentals in a fresh and compelling way. Influenced by many different genres, he showcases unusual guitar tunings while incorporating percussive rhythms, harmonics, and finger-tapping with a piano-like approach that is both musically and visually stimulating.

Jim’s driving perfectionism has brought him from an unknown street musician to gaining the attention of the editors at Billboard Magazine who named him “One of the best independent artists in the
Midwest,” and winning the 2004 Guitar Idol Championship.

He has opened forAnn Wilson (Heart), Pat Benatar, Poi DogPondering, Johnny Rivers and Muriel Anderson, The Musical Box and Credence Clearwater Revisited, to name a few.

His seventh recording, True North, has received rave reviews and airplay on over 180 radio stations across the US and Canada including NPR’s Echoes program.

Although Jim and has gained much interest for his unusual percussive playing style, he considers himself a songwriter first, a guitarist second. “The songs are the musical result of self-discovery and the guitar techniques are simply tools used to express them. In the end, it’s the song that matter."