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DIFFUSER.FM PREMIERES BROTHER DEGE'S NEW TRACK "PAY NO MIND"! CLICK HERE TO LISTEN   BROTHER DEGE CURRENTLY ON MAJOR EUROPEAN TOUR / U.S. SUMMER TOUR DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON     The Deep South's forgotten son comes banging out of the gates with his third album under the Brother Dege moniker, Scorched Earth Policy: Deluxe,  morphing his signature Delta, sonic-slide sound (as heard in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained official soundtrack) into the psyouthern, psych swamposphere. Joined by his touring band, The Brethren, Brother Dege & Co. push these 12 tracks into rural cinematic realms, adding their post-millennial update to the southern rock & roll lexicon.  Following his two previous acclaimed solo efforts (2009's Folk Songs Of The American Longhair & 2013's How To Kill A Horse )  Brother Dege released a unique 19-track digital-only "summer mixtape" last year entitled  Scorched Earth Pol...

BROTHER DEGE HITS THE ROAD IN SUPPORT OF HIS NEW " SCORCHED EARTH POLICY " DIGITAL SUMMER MIXTAPE OUT NOW!   DEGE SHARES HIS NEW SONG "SET IT OFF" CLICK HERE TO LISTEN AND POST Ever since his music has been featured in Quentin Tarantino's film Django Unchained as well as the Discovery Channel and the National Geographic Channel, Brother Dege (AKA Dege Legg) can no longer lay claim to being "one of the best kept secrets in the Deep South." Dege is a musician, writer, workingman and heir to a long line of unusual characters born and raised in the southern U.S. Like the mad lovechild of Son House, Faulkner and Patti Smith, Legg has burned a crooked trail to the Promised Land. Avoiding traditional career paths, he has spent as much time exploring the backwoods weirdness of his home state as he has forging his own brand of incendiary, "psyouthern" roots music. The journeys are parallel. Since the late '90s...

  BROTHER DEGE PREMIERES NEW VIDEO FOR HIS TRACK "TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG" - THE SONG QUENTIN TARANTINO HAND-PICKED FOR HIS NEW FILM "DJANGO UNCHAINED"   CLICK ON THE IMAGE ABOVE TO WATCH BROTHER DEGE'S "TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG" Brother Dege ("deej") (aka Dege Legg) is one of the best-kept secrets in the Deep South. A musician, writer and Southern enigma, Dege is the haunted face of 21st century Delta blues . Like the possessed offspring of Faulkner and Son House, he plays slide guitar in the age-old tradition of the blues greats, yet manages to breathe new life into this revered Delta idiom. The reclusive Louisiana Cajun's song "Too Old To Die Young" was recently selected by Quentin Tarantino to appear in the soundtrack of his new film Django Unchained , which just opened in theaters on Christmas day. Tarantino was recently interviewed on SiriusXM Radio’s show Little Steven’s Underground Garage ...

  BROTHER DEGE'S SONG "TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG" HAND-CHOSEN BY QUENTIN TARANTINO FOR THE SOUNDTRACK OF HIS NEW FILM "DJANGO UNCHAINED" (OUT CHRISTMAS DAY)   CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO BROTHER DEGE'S "TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG" Brother Dege ("deej") (aka Dege Legg) is one of the best-kept secrets in the Deep South. A musician, writer and Southern enigma, Dege is the haunted face of 21st century Delta blues . Like the possessed offspring of Faulkner and Son House, he plays slide guitar in the age-old tradition of the blues greats, yet manages to breathe new life into this revered Delta idiom. Well, make that… was one of the best-kepts secrets… as the reclusive Louisiana Cajun's song "Too Old To Die Young" was personally selected by Quentin Tarantino to appear in the soundtrack of his new film Django Unchained , starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson. Tarantino describes his method of...

BROTHER DEGE OFFERS FANS FREE DOWNLOAD OF HIS NEW SONG "WEHYAH" FROM HIS FORTHCOMING SOPHOMORE ALBUM "HOW TO KILL A HORSE" CONFIRMED PERFORMANCE AT THIS YEAR'S NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL MAY 6TH! [Brother Dege - photo credit: Paul Kieu] CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD & POST BROTHER DEGE'S NEW SONG "WEHYAH" FROM HIS FORTHCOMING ALBUM "HOW TO KILL A HORSE" [OUT FALL OF 2012] If Robert Johnson were alive…he’d be stealing licks from this cat. Louisiana born and raised Brother Dege (aka Dege Legg – Louisiana born, swampland mad genius, and also frontman for the Lafayette, LA-based rock band Santeria) is one of the best kept secrets in the Deep South – a writer, musician, artist, and a one-man band, pushing the resonator and slide guitar into the 21st century like some mad lovechild of Robert Johnson and Lou Reed. Mixing the traditional slide playing of the Mississippi Delta Blues masters (Son House, Blind Wi...

In talking with Brother Dege he incicated that he is working on the follow up to Folk Songs of the American Longhair in an empty warehouse, working full-time in a homeless shelter, and trying to keep the family happy. He going on a two week tour of Holland Nov. 3-13, in between recording. Europe Nov. 3 Rambler, Eindhoven, Holland Nov. 4 Morrison's Pub, Rossum, Holland Nov. 5 Nix bluesclub, Enschede , Holland Nov. 6 De Groot, Eindhoven, Holland Nov. 8 Cultuurhuis, Heerlen, Holland Nov. 9 De Bromfiets, Bonheiden, Holland Nov. 10 De Bunker, Gemert, Holland Nov. 11 De Loods, Aarschot, Holland Nov. 12 Blaublues, Haringe, Holland Here's Dege's impressions on the new release: "Notes about the new Brother Dege record. It might be great. It might suck. But it won't be boring. I'm picking up where I left off with Folk Songs and charging further out there. There will be some raw barn burners on there, some slide-scape type atmospherics, and a gna...

FROM Brother's Dege's all-slide CD "Folk Songs of the American Longhair" . We reviewed this cd a few weeks back. BROTHER DEGE On Tour Apr 29 WTUL Radio Appearance | New Orleans 3:00 p.m. Apr 29 One Man Machine/Bernard Piece House Party | New Orleans, Louisiana Apr 30 The Nick | Birmingham, Alabama May 1 TBA | Athens, Georgia May 2 The Milestone Club w/Gideon Smith | Charlotte, North Carolina May 4 The Garage | Winston- Salem, North Carolina May 5 Market Street Coffee | Leesburg, Virginia May 6 The Manhattan Room | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania May 7 Otto’s Shrunken Head | New York, New York May 8 Goodbye Blue Monday | Brooklyn, New York May 9 Don Pedro | Brooklyn, New York May 10 AS220 Art Exchange | Providence, Rhode Island May 11 The Armory | Somerville, Massachusetts May 12 Midway Cafe | Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts May 14 Breakfast Club/HiFi | Cleveland, Ohio May 15 SouthGate House | Newport (Cincinnati, OH), Kentucky ...

Long awaited review of Dege's new cd. You won't be disappointed. This cd is not like anything I've ever heard so it's hard to compare it. I know I like it. 10 songs and all enjoyable. It is a mixture of blues, folk swamp and primitive. There are subtle nuances of chants in the background of some songs and foot stomping rhythm... and of course always tasty slide dobro work. I particularly liked Hard Road to Hoe, House of the Dying Sun, Dead and Gone, World's Longest Hot Dog. Black is the Night is the most straightforward song on the cd and the one most likely to get airplay. Here's Hard Road to Row which is being used as the Theme Song for Discovery Channels After the Catch 2010. Get Facebook support for your favorite band or venue - click HERE

A WALK IN THE DARK Lake Anna State Park, Virginia. 5.5.10 I’ve got a day off between NC and DC So I’m doing some R&R. Crashing at Lake Anna State Park in Virginia. Place is empty, because it’s midweek. But it’s beautiful. Big lake. Lot trees and trails. Only two other campers in the camping lots. Everyone keeps to themselves, Which makes it extra quiet and isolated. And kind of lonely. But still pretty nice out here. Night falls. I build a little fire. It keeps me company As the stars bloom and the night sounds rev up Like a high-whining nature engine. I boil water over the fire and cook up some noodles. Alone. Looking around. I question my decision to crash here. It’s almost TOO quiet. Like I said, it being midweek, Everyone is working and the whole park Is pretty empty. Around midnight, To combat the weirdness of being alone out here, I grab the flashing light and go for a long walk Down a trail in the woods. It’s pretty rad. When you turn the fl...

5.4.10 Somewhere in North Carolina After the madness of the van dying And me forgetting my damn amp back in ATL, I could finally relax. Because the worst was over. Now it was time to enjoy the ride. I hit Winston-Salem, NC on a mission. Got wrong directions to club. Ended up in ancient, abandoned warehouse district. Nothing but pre-war decaying factory buildings With cracked teeth broken windows And brick covered with the dust of another era. Kooky pigeons flapping over head. Pretty eerie place. Ghosts of the industrial age when robots were just a dream. I knew this could not be the club. Or maybe it was, who knows? I drove around till I found it on the other side Of downtown Winston-Salem. As I pulled up to club, I see the other band Unloading their gear from car. Punk rock & roll band from Pittsburgh. http://www.myspace.com/atomicdrops The Atom Drops. Black T-shirts, tattoos, etc. Good dudes. I pull up in the Black Bayou Ministry van. “What’s up, dud...

BrotherDege[Editor’s note: Independent Weekly arts/entertainment writer Dege Legg is in the first furlong of a month-long music tour up the East Coast to Boston, west across the Upper Midwest and back down to Louisiana. His tour, in the guise of his latest musical persona, Brother Dege, is in support of his new record, Folk Songs of the American Longhair, a mostly solo undertaking featuring Dege on resonator guitar. He will be filing reports of his experiences from the road throughout the tour. This is the first installment. As best we can we’ve replicated the form in which Dege transmitted the data via Facebook. We have, however, defused a few F-bombs and otherwise made sure it is rated PG. Pray for Dege's safe return, and help support this important contribution to the American song book by buying his record at CD Baby.] THURS. APRIL 29 NEW ORLEANS Played KTUL. Then rolled to Bernard's house party. Way out in the hood. Marigny. Pulled up in van. Thugs on corner yell ...

Dege Legg (Dobro bio): Writing in the old, haunted tradition of slide-blues greats, writer/musician Dege Legg breathes new life in the Delta Blues genre, not by imitation, but by infusing original songs with his experience of growing up in the Deep South—young, white, alienated, freak-in-the-country-style. With Robert-Johnson-on-Thorazine-style slide work paired with Middle-East-Meets-South melodies, a mindblowing new take on an old tradition emerges—one that is surreal, warped, odd, and droning, but also firmly rooted in the troubled and death-obsessed masters of old. Dege adamantly avoids the flashy, purist, mid-life-crisis white-guy school of slide playing—with its hokey attempts at singing about country living and faux cottonpicking. Instead you hear battered tales of apocalyptic prophesies, endless darkness, yearning stoners, backwoods drugs, hallucinatory angels, burning barns, junkyards, and the floating ghosts of the Deep South. All of it is told in an honest voice by one who l...