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NHS Love Concert: Ben and Emily sing Hate That I Love You DukeGreene 295 views February 11, 2011. Ben G. and Emily F. rock out with Christian V. on guitar to the Top 40 hit by (I'm too lazy to Google the original artists.) You can't see it, but everyo...
Duke Greene Holiday DukeGreene 158 views Duke Greene plays his catchy holiday love song at Frenz in Rockford. Even though he hates snow.
Duke Greene Doorstep DukeGreene 81 views Pardon the espresso machine. This song is about working up the courage to get real and come home, and it's about the people who help along the way. Duke Greene's Doorstep, ...
Duke Greene Icarus DukeGreene 220 views "Maybe if I hold on, You'll let me go." Pride comes before a fall. But legends fall seven times and rise up eight. Icarus, by Duke Greene, has loose ends and a tight melody...
Duke Greene Push DukeGreene 89 views Duke Greene's Push puts you inside the mind of a man battling with bipolar disorder; never quite good enough for himself, too "strong" to change himself.
Duke Greene Change DukeGreene 133 views It's time to wake up! Duke Greene shakes of the shackles of comfy living with his song, Change, at Frenz Coffee in Rockford.
Duke Greene Fallout DukeGreene 107 views Retail therapy isn't. Fallout asks all the hard questions. Sung by Duke Greene at Frenz Coffee in Rockford.
Duke Greene One-Two Punch DukeGreene 86 views Duke finds the right notes at the right times for the largely improvised Creation anthem, One-Two Punch. It's a toe-tapper.
Duke Greene Place to Be Free DukeGreene 89 views The last couple minutes of the first song of Duke's last show before the first of March. It's about how the last shall be first. Sort of. Recorded at Frenz Coffee in Rockford.
Duke Greene Reincarnation DukeGreene 129 views Duke Greene plays Reincarnation at Frenz Coffee in Rockford. It's upbeat, sing-along friendly, and vaguely Hindu. You'll love it!

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"The love child of Dave Matthews and Norah Jones, sent off to live with Stevie Wonder." - Jeremy Harder, Household Music

Duke Greene is not your average singer-songwriter.

For one thing, he can't seem to stick to one genre, effortlessly moving between laid-back jazzy folk grooves and hard-driving social justice rockers and hauntingly beautiful ballads and soaring acoustic anthems as though they were old friends from different cliques at some impossibly utopian high-school reunion.

For another, he doesn't pretend to know about anything other than himself. His songs are always autobiographical, usually literal, and never finished if he doesn't like the sound of 'em. He doesn't try to seem alienated, misunderstood, tortured, or starving. He's authentic. It's refreshing. For both parties, generally.

Duke released True Enough in April of 2005. The songs tell the story of a young, hopelessly romantic dreamer afraid to come home, but unable to go anywhere else. Since the album's release, Duke's been seen strumming around his native Grand Rapids, MI, rocking coffeehouses and private parties and putting off trying too hard until some perfect moment.

Around Superbowl Sunday 2008, he stumbled into the next best thing. Events conspired to shove Duke away from a three-year battle with addiction, and he started playing again. Started writing again. Started getting out and returning phone calls and shedding his hermit outfit once and for all.

Started work on his second album, One More, due out June 26. It's sharper, moodier, more mature. It's the story of a man at the end of his rope who decides to start knitting.

Duke Greene will never stop writing music. So now would be a very good time to start listening. You don't wanna fall behind on this journey.

Don't believe the hype. BECOME the hype. Visit www.DukeGreene.com and taste the acoustic magic for yourself. You won't be sorry.

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