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"
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, Dege has pushed slide, resonators, and the Deep South, kicking
and screaming into the 21st century, melding elements of folk, Delta blues,
punk, rock, metal, hippie ragas and outlaw county into one blasted, raw
whole.
Following his two previous
acclaimed solo efforts (2009's Folk Songs Of The American Longhair &
last year's How To Kill A Horse) Brother Dege is now set
to release a unique 19-track digital "summer mixtape" entitled Scorched
Earth Policy, featuring a mix of newly recorded studio songs, demos,
covers and field recordings.
"In no way am I trying to rap, I'm paying tribute to the culture of the modern south and mix tapes, and just applying that idea to the realm of the slide guitar, delta blues and experimentalism."
"In the modern world of Pro-tools recording, there's an overemphasis on things being perfect. Things do not have to be perfect. Much of this obsession with perfection has sucked the soul out of a lot of bands. New music can be raw and flawed - warts and all - and still releasable to the public."
Brother Dege's Scorched
Earth Policy summer mixtape is available now digitally through iTunes &
CD
Baby.
BROTHER DEGE "SCORCHED
EARTH POLICY" TOUR:
June 19 - Mud & Water,
Baton Rouge, LA
June 20 - Beatniks, New
Orleans, LA
June 21 - Green Bar,
Tuscaloosa, AL
June 22 - The Nick,
Birmingham, AL
June 25 - Ashley Street
Station, Valdosta, GA
June 27 - LL Creek, Waycross,
GA
June 28 - Flicker Bar, Athens,
GA
July 3 - Tin Roof, Charleston,
SC
July 5 - Double Door,
Charlotte, NC
July 10 - Pour House, Raleigh,
NC
July 19 - Blue Moon Saloon,
Lafayette, LA
July 25 - Hi-Tone, Memphis,
TN
July 26 - The Studio (BAA),
Memphis, TN
(more dates to be announced
soon)
SCORCHED EARTH POLICY - SUMMER MIX
TAPE TRACK LISTING
01 Scorched Earth Intro (New
Song)
02 Set It Off (New
Song)
03 The Day I Was Born (New
Song)
04 Yellabone (New
Song)
05 Tower of Babel (New
Song)
06 Revolution (New
Song)
07 Supernaut (Black Sabbath
cover)
08 Powerline (Husker Du
cover)
09 The Zatan Boys (Spoken word
reading of the Dege Legg’s book The Battle Hymn of the Good Ol’HIllbilly
Zatan Boys)
10 Jones For War
(Demo)
11 Speaking Tongues
(Demo)
12 Way of the Lamb
(Demo)
13 Haunted Heart
(Demo)
14 Bombs Away
(Demo)
15 Flower Power Chain Gang
(Demo)
16 Promised Land
(Demo)
17 Operation- Have U Never
Been Mellow (Field Recording)
18 Mamou (Field
Recording)
19 Yinning on a Yang (Field
Recording)
HERE'S WHAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN
SAYING ABOUT BROTHER DEGE:
"Frankly, every track on the Brother Dege CD could have been
in the movie [Django Unchained]. It works and has
a badass score sound to it. Almost every song could be a theme song. It’s like a
greatest hits album. But this song 'Too Old to Die Young'... it’s pretty damn
badass. And it’s used in the movie in a pretty damn badass way, I’ve got to
say.” - QUENTIN TARANTINO
“Fans of slide guitar, Southern gothic, or plain
old rock & roll attitude need to run, not walk, and check out Brother Dege
ASAP. Brother Dege is a case study in how one guy with a steel guitar and
minimal accompaniment can out-rock a roomful of electric bombast, given the
right songs, the right skills, and the right voice. Brother Dege has‘em all.”
– POPMATTERS
“[Four Stars] In lesser hands all this might easily
sound contrived, but instead it’s genuinely powerful and compelling stuff. 'The
Girl Who Wept Stones' and 'Dead & Gone' might have been ripped from the Son
House songbook, though the seven-minute epic 'House of the Dying Sun' is the
real keeper.” – UNCUT
“Both ancient and modern, like an indie rock cover
of something Lomax may have recorded a hundred years ago.” – BLOGCRITICS
"... an updated perspective of the age-old Delta
blues." - OFFBEAT MAGAZINE
“Brother Dege brings the ghosts of kudzu-covered
swamp rats to life in your speakers. Find the darkest spot in your backyard,
light some candles and turn it up.” – THE BIG
TAKEOVER
“... in the slide
guitar Delta blues tradition, but with Legg’s own twist.” – CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE
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