Brother Dege, Kinky Friedman, and Guthrie Kennard join Twisted South Magazine founder Zeke Loftin and music writer Michael Buffalo Smith LIVE for this week's installment of Twisted South Radio. Andrew Brewer "The Rock & Roll Psychic" may also drop by, plus special call-in guests. They welcome your calls, live chat, and have some free giveaways. "The Essential, Eccentric South" at its best...every Wednesday from 8-10 p.m. Central at blogtalkradio/twistedsouthradio.
Dege plays "Hard Row to Hoe" on this cool site for National/reso/slide players. Store, video and photo galleries, blog roll, message board, and much more! Excellent place to get your slidefreak on.
AFTER THE CATCH
This Coming Tuesday June 15th, Discovery Channel, 8:00p.m. Central, BROTHER DEGE will be featured in all five episodes of "After the Catch".
In addition to playing some mean on-camera Dobro in the streets of NOLA, Dege's "Hard Row to Hoe" is now the new official theme song.
The album/song Tony Daigle, Dege, and Primo engineered, mixed, and produced, folks. Be sure to watch the intro and first few mins of the show!!
...Well, that's rock 'n' roll in the real world. So Primo has set up a PayPal fund to help defray the van repairs and such. Show your Brother some love here.
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
May 16
Reggie’s Music Joint |
Chicago, Illinois
May 18
The Gramophone |
St. Louis, Missouri
May 19
Trouser Mouse |
Blue Springs/Kansas City, Missouri
May 20
The Lounge on Elm |
Dallas, Texas
May 21
Fitzgeralds (8 p.m.) |
Houston, Texas
May 29
Grant Street Dancehall (10 p.m., w/ Scott H. Biram) |
Lafayette, Louisiana
TheInd.com: O Brother Dege, Where Art Thou?
The Media page is now up, with a tasty selection of press photos.
Brother Dege's Folk Songs of the American Longhair is now available here:
To show both respect and allegiance for the great city of New Orleans & the New Orleans Saints, Brother Dege is allowing The Battle of New Orleans from his forthcoming album to be downloaded for FREE:
Super Bowl XLIV
Sunday Feb 7th, 6:25PM ET on CBS - The New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts will go head to head at the Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.
Brother Dege (Santeria/Black Bayou Construkt/Dege Legg)
Folksongs of the American Longhair aka THE DOBRO ALBUM
Brother Dege readies anticipated all-Delta Blues record
Get ready for some raw dirt, railroad pounding, swamp-fried, Louisiana-meets-the-Mekong Delta blues music. This ain't no cowboy chording blues cheese. This is the REAL shit. Dege Legg, the Cajun-born and Louisiana-raised leader of the band Santeria, is currently in the studio mixing his much-anticipated "slide/Dobro record" with 4x Grammy-winning producer Tony Daigle (Dr. John, Sonny Landreth, Gatemouth Brown, Bobby Charles, etc) and Primo.
Legg composed ten original tunes in the slide Delta tradition, painstakingly paying tribute to the old masters while tossing all purist, karaoke-like tendencies to the wind. Think Son House meets Leonard Cohen at a hoodoo séance in the swamps. Slide players from the U.S. to Europe are already covering the tunes and the record is not even out yet, via a series of live Brother Dege YouTube videos which have garnered over 150,000 plays with no promotional hype or jive.
Much like the field recordings of Alan Lomax, the record tunnels into the ancient mysteries of pre-war blues and the devil-obsessed masters. Recorded in sheds, old houses, and open fields for maximum intensity. There's minimal instrumentation on this thing. In a return to the unprocessed basics, almost all of the tracks feature only one vocal, one slide guitar, and one foot stomping. That's it. Listeners are in for a treat when they hear how the music sounds, writhing about in the echo chamber of reality when stripped of all the studio trickery of the past decade.
Get ready. Projected release date is Feb. 16th.
Read the rest here. It also features a video of The Girl Who Wept Stones.
Oh, and also? There's this:
Sundown on Unicorn Ridge = Brother Dege + Riffs of Griff
02.05.2010 | 10:00 p.m. | Artmosphere, Lafayette
BROTHER DEGE on PureGrainAudio.com
Chris Gondo writes: "Like the mad love child of Robert Johnson and Jack Kerouac, Brother Dege Legg comes roaring out of the middle of Nowhere with the Delta Blues masterpiece, Folk Songs of the American Longhair (CD).
"After a decade spent fronting southern psych band Santeria and exploring madhouses, crap jobs, jails, drugs, trailerparks, philosophy, and every other kind of weirdness contained within the Deep South, the born & raised Cajun set out to record this tour de force acoustic, slide album..."
Read the rest here. It also features a video of The Girl Who Wept Stones.
SANTERIA makes CLASSIC ROCK's Best of 2009!
Primo says: "Santeria are featured in the brand new issue of Classic Rock Magazine (#140 January 2010).
"Santeria's You Got What I Need is also included in the magazine's free CD sampler.
"On behalf of the band, we are honored to be a part of the magazine's Best of 2009 Issue!!
"The new issue Of Classic Rock Is On Sale Now!"
BBC GIG
10.30.09 | Black Bayou Contrukt | Downtown Alive, Lafayette
BROTHER DEGE GIG
10.09.09 | Scott Biram, Brother Dege| Spanish Moon, Lafayette
CD Release Party and New Official Santeria Site Launched:
Our buddy Chris at skeletal circus
has tooled up a completely new official Santeria site to coincide with the release of Year of the Knife
on Fri.Oct.10. Send him an email if you like it.
And let him know it rocks.
Freedom ain't cheap.
Also, the CD RELEASE PARTY
for Year of the Knife
will be on FRI.OCT.10
At Nitetown in Lafayette, LA.
On Sat.Oct.11, we play 710 Club in Lake Charles, LA.
Come. Classic Rock Magazine: Southern Rock Issue
Santeria is featured in the August-"Southern Rock" issue
Of Classic Rock Magazine this month.
And the Santeria track "Come On, Baby"
Is also featured on the CD included with the magazine when you buy it.
Among 20 other new & old bands.
It's one of those glued-to-the-cover numbers.
If you're looking for it on the stands, Skynyrd is on the cover.
We're in listed, along with Down, Shooter Jennings, & others
As part of "The New Breed of Southern Rock."
In addition, all the old guard are heavily cited.
Blackfoot, Black Oak Arkansas, Skynyrd, & even Molly Hatchet, brah.
We've never shied away from the fact that we are indeed
"southern rockers" so we're really grateful that the cool folks at Classic Rock
Chose to include Santeria in this issue.
It's a good feeling and we thank them.
So Right On/Write On.
Go buy one if yr so inclined.
Dege
Trailerville Used as Score for L.A. Play of Same Name
from The Dege Blog: In the jumble of things going on,
I forgot to mention that about a month ago
I was contacted by playwright Hannah Logan and director Eileen Galindo from the Ground Up Theater Company in Los Angeles.
They're putting on a play called Trailerville. Same name as an instrumental CD of guitar-scapes
I released in 2004.
Regardless, they're using the music for my Trailerville
for their Trailerville, which is a really thoughtful play
set in a Deep South trailerpark
that explores the question:
"Does where we come from determine who we are?"
And...it avoids the cliches, etc.
Good shit.
It opened in L.A. last month (June) to good reviews.
And it will run in NYC sometime in the next few months.
From the Ground Up is the state's only bi-coastal
Independent Theater Compnay.
If you live in L.A or NYC,
Go check it out and support the art of living.
Slipping Through the Cracks Wins LA Press Award
The June '07 article Dege wrote for The Independent won Best Individual Feature at this year's Louisiana Press Awards.
04.24.08
| The Botanist (8 pm), SANTERIA (10 pm), & Screams
of Triumph (midnight) @ Renaissance.
04.25.08 | BROTHER DEGE (8 pm), Menwar, & The Bluerunners
@ Blue Moon Saloon.
04.27.08 | BLACK BAYOU, The Fashion, + many bands
at 307 Club downtown during/after Fest Intl.
Come out and have funs. Krishna of Santeria will be in town doing
the Santeria shows. Ain't done one of those since July 4th, last
summer. So come say hello and dig some rock & roll.
Synclive at the Blue Moon
Fri. night gig at the Blue Moon in Laf. They're
signed up with synclive.com to stream the show. Here's the player:
Done
Mixing the BBC Record.
Mixing of the Black Bayou Construkt record is complete and
we are now getting ready to master the thing. Tentative title: Kingdoms
of Folly. 15 songs total...don't know if all will make it,
but one thing is for sure there's a lot of data/songs...and they
range from a new wavey-sounding tune with a disco-y chorus to Mekong
Delta blues atmospheric-dobro-black helicopter, barn burners like
"Black is the Night."
Santeria, Year of the Knife. We're in the beginning
stages of mixing and post-edits. Whatever that means...pretty much
clearing out tracks. It's coming, too. Sit tight. Both records have
promises that don't break.
Gigs coming as well...after all this studio shit is done.
Cablog. Getting a lot of emails about the ol'Cablog from
all over the place. People love that shit...who would have thought?
Cablog is still rolling and being written. There's been a few gaps
in the frequency of the posts, but that's cuz I'm trying to get
some records done at the same time. But it's there...or here...if
you wanna read it. Warning: mature content (whores, crackheads,
streetlife, drunks, etc)...not for the weak of heart.
GIG
ALERT: Black Bayou Construkt will be playing the New
Orleans Cutting Edge Music Festival at Big Tops 3 Ring
Circus Club in New Orleans on FRI. AUG. 24. Slot
is at 1am at night. Late, late. Come. Our only NOLA show in a while.
RECORD ALERT: Currently mixing both the Black Bayou
and Santeria records. No release date yet.
MIND ALERT: I'm going insane!!!!!! I need some
A-Game motherfuckers to roll with.
Article:"Slipping Through the Cracks: A Week on the Streets."
Slide
Show-Interview Links:
Check these things out. Reese Fuller made them.
I did the interviews and the amazingly talented Terri Fensel shot
the photos.
*Thanks
again to Reese for making these. And Scott for editing the piece.
Details
What with some of the homeless population in Lafayette
Ramping up a bit in the past couple years
I was curious as to who these people were
And what were they like
So I grew my beard out ("method writing"),
Packed a tiny bag and lived on the streets,
And checked it out for myself.
Among other things,
I slept under the I-10 bridge, roamed the dope alleys & highways,
and gained entry and temporary membership
To Lafayette's biggest homeless camp,
Which nobody knew existed--even myself.
Hint: It's in a big wooded field kind of right under the nose of
the city.
It was an interesting experience and writing job, but also tough.
I cursed myself at times for taking on this task.
But thanks to help from Scott & Reese at The Indpendent,
I finally got the motherfucker done.
The article was kind of ungainly and about 2000 words over par
Just a couple weeks ago
But Scott helped me edit it, get it into shape, and make it lean.
I've always been curious about hobos and such.
Even wanted be one when I was a kid,
Not knowing the severity of the situation at times.
Guess I got to live out that "dream."
It ain't wasn't easy, though...but aside from some cursory "vibing,"
Most of the homeless folks were pretty friendly.
Watched out for me.
They fed me hamburgers, hot dogs, and beans every night
Cooked on open fire.
They're pretty resourceful--I'm a big fan of "resourcefulness."
I learned about showering in gas station bathrooms, shitting in
the woods,
Gathering hot water from the Taco Bell utility hose after-hours,
Recyling aluminum cans for cash,
Dumpster Diving,
And filling Coleman Dual-Fuel mini-stoves with gasoline
Straight from the pump to cook on, etc...
Cool shit.
I dig stuff like that.
Having been on tour with a band, I was blown away
By the homeless folks' ingenuity at the pure Art of Survival
Somebody give those guys banjos and let them start a band.
They'll be unstoppable.
A lot of people in Lafayette are under the mistaken impression
That this new influx of homeless people
Are all Katrina evacuees--Wrong.
They're from EVERYWHERE.
Many from around here.
Like next door and up the street.
What with the economy and job-shit being somewhat fucked at times,
It's interesting to note that, Yes, indeed, many of us
Are just "one paycheck away from being where they are."
Fucking trip.
Keeps you humble.
