Olive Green

From annoying “hair bands” at the New Daisy on Beale Street to celeb bedrock icons U2 on the Liberty Bowl to — maximum afresh — such rootsy acts as Steve Earle and Son Volt at Lafayette’s Music Room in Overton Square, Jim Green delivered music to Memphis.

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A concert apostle for some 30 years, Green died Monday night time at his domestic in Olive Branch. He turned into 50.

“Any time we lose anyone within the music community, it’s unhappy,” said Green’s track-business mentor, Mike Glenn, buyer of the New Daisy.

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In the Nineties and aboriginal 2000s, Green shaped for the area’s above live performance bookers, Mid-South Concerts and Beaver Productions. He started out his very own organisation, Big Green Machine, in 2009.

He changed into the unique booker for the Snowden Grove Amphitheater (now general as the BankPlus Amphitheater) aback that location opened in 2006, bringing such acts because the White Stripes, the Dave Matthews Bandage and Kenny Chesney to Southaven.

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More recently, he changed into track booker at Minglewood Hall in Midtown and at Lafayette’s, an ballast atom in Overton Square that — pre-coronavirus — featured 15 alive suggests consistent with week.

“We’re reeling,” stated Lafayette’s usual supervisor, Julien Salley, in acknowledgment to the account of Green’s dying.

“No comic story, we get at atomic 100 emails a day from bands absent to comedy here,” Salley said. “To go through all that and acquaint with the ones artists and accomplish those contracts, we are talking approximately a awe-inspiring assignment, but Jim favourite the enterprise. We butted active constantly, but we both capital Lafayette’s to be notable.”

Green’s able accomplishments weren’t clearly musical. In 2008, he produced the aboriginal presidential agitation amid Democratic applicant Barack Obama and Republican appointee John McCain, captivated at Green’s alma mater, the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

Born in Water Valley, Mississippi, Green grew up in Southaven. Majoring in administration and advertising at Ole Miss, Green alloyed his commercial enterprise instincts together with his adulation of tune, handling advancing bands at the same time as moreover reserving and announcement bandage excursions.

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After reserving numerous bands at the membership, Green started alive at the New Daisy within the aboriginal 1990s, aback the area started out always hosting the alleged “alternative” bands whose song changed into truth performed on Memphis’ hip new radio station, 96X.

“It changed into like a exchange overnight,” Glenn stated. “It went from the beard bands of the ’80s to grunge. I without a doubt bethink carrying out the BulletBoys on a Sunday and Nirvana on a Monday.”

In 1994, Green abutting Mid-South Concerts, the area’s ascendant reserving aggregation for above acts, and started out declaration bedrock spectacles showcasing such bands as KISS and the Rolling Stones. After founding his personal organization, his bookings have become brought fluid, and he burdened aback and alternating amid sufficient and baby venues, bearing shows for Mud Island, the Memphis Botanic Garden and Beale Street Music Festival.

Green additionally managed agreeable corporations, which includes Beanland, an Oxford-based totally jam band, and Memphis’ Ingram Hill, which lively inside the 2000s with a above label, Hollywood Records, and denticulate hits on the Developed Contemporary charts. He moreover on occasion produced and answer absolute excursions, consisting of the 2009 ZZ Top tour of North America and the 2010 Jagermeister bout accessory through Eric Church.

In addition, Green became an ardent tennis player, allowance to authorize evolved recreational tennis leagues in North Mississippi.

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Green leaves his spouse, Tammy Hedges, controlling carnality admiral for university members of the family at the University of Memphis. Green and Hedges were affiliated 18 years in the past on Halloween, throughout a dressing up-celebration bells captivated inside the New Daisy.

He additionally leaves his mother, Rose Green of Southaven; two brothers, Allen Green of Southaven and Bryan Green of Hernando, Mississippi; famous twine fox terriers, Bishop and Sloane; and limitless concert memories within the minds of bags and baggage of Mid-Southerners, first-class of whom didn’t apperceive his name, however enjoyed seeing performances by using Bush, Oasis, Chicago, Blake Shelton, the Spin Doctors, the Steve Miller Bandage and Hootie