Willie Green sits backstage at the Chicago Blues Festival and taps out a funky beat with his fingers on the table next to him. He is nervous, but he’s smiling. “This is my first interview,” he says almost proudly, but with just enough of a confessional tone so that, if anything should go wrong, he can point to his inexperience in such things. Nothing does go wrong, however. It might be Willie Green’s first interview, but it surely won’t be his last. One of the hottest young drummers to come out of New Orleans in some time, Green is just now beginning to get noticed for what he does behind a drumset. As the drummer for the increasingly popular Neville Brothers, that New Orleans R&B/soul/funk/blues/rock/reggae outfit, Willie Green is in the right place at the right time. In a few minutes, he’ll get to show his stuff in front of […]