Tony Green Orchestra - TGO

Tony Green Orchestra - TGO

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Tony Green is a former newspaper crime reporter who writes songs about burglars, fugitives, killers and prison guards with poor judgement.

He also sings about love -- true, forbidden, fleeting, unrequited, fetishistic, curdled -- and Christmas.

Women in Jail (Live at Alberta Abbey) 05/08/2026

I played an old song at Alberta Abbey last night:

Women in Jail (Live at Alberta Abbey) One of my first songs.

Ashbel Green 04/24/2026

Michael Annus and I performed "Badge Ain't Silver" next to the Willamette River in the mid-1990s. It was inspired by an Oregon State Senator who frequently claimed to have been in law enforcement, but never provided any details and some in the press gallery suspected she'd been in supermarket security.

Ashbel Green Badge Ain't Silver

Ashbel Green 04/17/2026

This is part of a performance from the mid-1990s with Michael Annus

Ashbel Green Aaah

04/16/2026

Why is Gresham’s fleet manager driving a fire truck home?

Ashbel Green 04/15/2026

This song is from the perspective of the woman who was the basis of the Elvis Costello song, Alison. It's going to be on the new album Mattiey L. Gaunt and I are working on:

Ashbel Green That Song

04/14/2026

The detective seems to contradict himself by saying the robber is “getting more confident,” has “the potential to be violent’” and “he’s pretty cautious.”

02/16/2026

I love the story of the vigilante arborist

02/15/2026

When I was on the police beat in the early 1990s, there was no crime too small for the Gresham PD to respond (and nothing too small for me to write about).

02/14/2026

Gresham man will steal anything

Prison Death Metal Band 02/06/2026

At our gig last month at the Blue Moon in Seattle, Mattiey L. Gaunt and I played several songs from our latest album, Strong, but not too sweet, including this one:

Prison Death Metal Band

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