Brother Dege Legg († March 8 2024), Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained Gr… Read Full Bio ↴Brother Dege Legg († March 8 2024), Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained Grammy-nominated, is one of the best-kept secrets in Louisiana; a musician, writer (Louisiana Press Award 2004, 2008), outsider artist, and heir to a long line of enigmatic characters birthed in slaughterhouse of the Deep South. It’s a been a wild ride for this boy. Like the mad love child of Son House and William Faulkner, Legg has burned a colorful trail through the Promised Land, working odd jobs (dishwasher, day laborer, cabdriver, embedded journalist, homeless shelter employee), hitchhiking, studying philosophy, writing books, and experimenting with psychedelics - all while passionately championing the Deep South, but also clashing with its pecking orders, prejudices, and parochial narrow-mindedness.
Growing up, there were few promising opportunities for young man of Legg’s stripe in Cajun country and things eventually got difficult and strange: chronic bouts of depression, habitual drug use, small town drama, and arrests soon became routine. During one gloomy episode - deflated, broke, and strung out - Legg climbed the Mississippi River Bridge in Baton Rouge, determined to dive into the next life, but after a last minute change of heart, humbly climbed back down and vowed to find a better way to exist. He immediately drove himself to rehab in a stolen Camaro and rededicated himself to his creative pursuits, namely songwriting. He formed the southern tribal rock band, Santeria who had a 10-year run of chaos and bedeviled kookiness (1994-2004). After four albums, they disbanded in an anarchic heap of bad luck, poverty, exhaustion, and voodoo curses they suspected were cast on the band to hasten their demise.
Legg spent the next year living in low-rent motels and trailer parks, writing new songs that tapped into the haunting style of the Delta Blues greats. With an odd ease, the songs poured out, spitting new life into the genre, not by hackneyed imitation, but by infusing original Delta-slide songs with his own experience of growing up in the Deep South—young, white, alienated, and lost. Legg’s Robert Johnson-on-Thorazine-style slide work paired with his droning-rural psychedelia brought the backwoods sounds of Louisiana (hurricanes, cows, cicadas) to life while remaining firmly rooted in the troubled and death-obsessed masters. This batch of songs became the first Brother Dege release, the now critically-acclaimed Folk Songs of the American Longhair (2010) - a record that Quentin Tarantino later referred to as “almost like a greatest hits album” of new Delta blues.
Home-recorded in Alan Lomax-like austerity, the album delivered postmodern tales of desperate southerners, apocalyptic prophecies, midnight angels, hippie drifters, burning barns, and the endless ghosts that haunt the history the Deep South. Quietly self-released with no distribution, no representation, and absolutely no hype, Folk Song of the American Longhair quickly earned 4-star reviews (UNCUT) and gained the attention of numerous tastemakers in film and TV, scoring sync placements on Discovery Channel’s After the Catch, Nat Geo’s Hard Riders, women’s cycling documentary Half the Road, Netflix’s The Afflicted, and most notably hand-picked by Quentin Tarantino for inclusion in the movie and soundtrack to Django Unchained.
Brother Dege quickly expanded his cinematic vision of the South with two follow-up albums: How to Kill a Horse (2013) and Scorched Earth Policy (2015). Teaming with otherworldly slide guitars, country psych, barn burning anthems, the tradition continues with his latest release Farmer’s Almanac (2018), a sprawling, southern concept album that further explores the unique mysteries of small towns.
Brother Dege’s latest album is the critically acclaimed Farmer’s Almanac, an 11-track, southern gothic journey that explores escapism, class structure, and the opiated dark side of America’s small town rural communities. Brother Dege’s fourth album swarms with otherworldly slide guitars, rustic psychedelia, possessed barn burners, and swamp-drenched cinematic songcraft.
Growing up, there were few promising opportunities for young man of Legg’s stripe in Cajun country and things eventually got difficult and strange: chronic bouts of depression, habitual drug use, small town drama, and arrests soon became routine. During one gloomy episode - deflated, broke, and strung out - Legg climbed the Mississippi River Bridge in Baton Rouge, determined to dive into the next life, but after a last minute change of heart, humbly climbed back down and vowed to find a better way to exist. He immediately drove himself to rehab in a stolen Camaro and rededicated himself to his creative pursuits, namely songwriting. He formed the southern tribal rock band, Santeria who had a 10-year run of chaos and bedeviled kookiness (1994-2004). After four albums, they disbanded in an anarchic heap of bad luck, poverty, exhaustion, and voodoo curses they suspected were cast on the band to hasten their demise.
Legg spent the next year living in low-rent motels and trailer parks, writing new songs that tapped into the haunting style of the Delta Blues greats. With an odd ease, the songs poured out, spitting new life into the genre, not by hackneyed imitation, but by infusing original Delta-slide songs with his own experience of growing up in the Deep South—young, white, alienated, and lost. Legg’s Robert Johnson-on-Thorazine-style slide work paired with his droning-rural psychedelia brought the backwoods sounds of Louisiana (hurricanes, cows, cicadas) to life while remaining firmly rooted in the troubled and death-obsessed masters. This batch of songs became the first Brother Dege release, the now critically-acclaimed Folk Songs of the American Longhair (2010) - a record that Quentin Tarantino later referred to as “almost like a greatest hits album” of new Delta blues.
Home-recorded in Alan Lomax-like austerity, the album delivered postmodern tales of desperate southerners, apocalyptic prophecies, midnight angels, hippie drifters, burning barns, and the endless ghosts that haunt the history the Deep South. Quietly self-released with no distribution, no representation, and absolutely no hype, Folk Song of the American Longhair quickly earned 4-star reviews (UNCUT) and gained the attention of numerous tastemakers in film and TV, scoring sync placements on Discovery Channel’s After the Catch, Nat Geo’s Hard Riders, women’s cycling documentary Half the Road, Netflix’s The Afflicted, and most notably hand-picked by Quentin Tarantino for inclusion in the movie and soundtrack to Django Unchained.
Brother Dege quickly expanded his cinematic vision of the South with two follow-up albums: How to Kill a Horse (2013) and Scorched Earth Policy (2015). Teaming with otherworldly slide guitars, country psych, barn burning anthems, the tradition continues with his latest release Farmer’s Almanac (2018), a sprawling, southern concept album that further explores the unique mysteries of small towns.
Brother Dege’s latest album is the critically acclaimed Farmer’s Almanac, an 11-track, southern gothic journey that explores escapism, class structure, and the opiated dark side of America’s small town rural communities. Brother Dege’s fourth album swarms with otherworldly slide guitars, rustic psychedelia, possessed barn burners, and swamp-drenched cinematic songcraft.
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Brother Dege Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Brother Dege:
Bastard's Blues Come down slow, pauper There ain′t no way out Upside the hea…
Black is the Night Black is the night Full is the moon So strange the starlig…
Country Come to Town Ain′t it a pity When your rooster crows At the top of…
Crazy Motherfucker I'm a crazy motherfucker, walking up your street. Craziest f…
Day I Was Born I'm a stone cold grinder That can't change Last of the blood…
Hard Row to Hoe Ten long years Ten more to go One rotten jail Go on, let…
House of the Dying Sun When the morning breaks And the grey dawn falls Will my ol…
How to Kill a Horse Deep in the warm, driving rain, there's a shadowclaim. So co…
Judgment Day On Judgment. On Judgment Day. St. John of Revelations. Ta…
Last Man Out of Babylon Dreaming within a dream. Falling even further. Screaming in …
Old Angel Midnight Old Angel Midnight Lead the way to the dawn. Tell me why …
Pay No Mind Yeah, they call me I'm the King of Krokus Ball of…
Poor Momma Child Where you going? Where you trying to hide? Two troubled kids…
Supernaut I want to reach out and touch the sky I want…
The Battle of New Orleans Hold now, the water rising. Coming as the storm arrives. K…
The Black Sea Have you never been woken and in time set free…
The Darker Side of Me Where has my love gone? Where can it be? Traipsing off into…
The Girl Who Wept Stones Rolling way down. Coming right now. You may be gone. Caus…
The Moon & the Scarecrow Got to hear her cry Got to hear my angel calling Such…
The Shakedown Soldiers and slaves Pounding halos and chains Marching somew…
The World's Longest Hotdog Jacked up in Waco Baby, you just don't know Burnt out in…
To Fill a Hole I slept through the time of waking Blind like a new…
Too Old to Die Young Round and round Round we go Where it stops? Nobody knows it …
Too Old To Die Young ✝ Round and round Round we go Where it stops? Nobody knows …
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You know I've walked a twisted mile where even fools, they don't want to go.
From the gut of a Glasgow shrine where even preachers can't find a soul.
Where even schemers can't get a roll.
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I even failed my punk rock & roll.
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IZAZOZ
I absolutely LOVE Brother Dege's music!! That shit speaks directly to my soul & eternal essence. You guys, please NEVER stop making music!!
Roadmaster '93
I absolutely love the music of Brother Dege. It just takes me to another world
Tee Al Rebel Yell
You know I've walked a twisted mile where even fools, they don't want to go.
From the gut of a Glasgow shrine where even preachers can't find a soul.
Where even schemers can't get a roll.
Where even dead men don't want to know.
Talkin' why.
Wehyah-oo-wehyah-om.
Wehyah-oo-wehyah-om.
Wehyah-oo-wehyah-om.
Wehyah-oo-wehyah.
You know I've walked a twisted mile of every stripe of every sickening hole.
From the bottom of a Brixton mine, I heard the cry of her lost soul.
You know this world is cut full of crime.
I even failed my punk rock & roll.
Talkin' why.
Wehyah-oo-wehyah-om.
Wehyah-oo-wehyah-om.
Wehyah-oo-wehyah-om.
Wehyah-oo-wehyah.
Tim Elam
I never get tired of You Bro Dege 🚬 : )-~
Vincent King
I am so addicted to this song.
Tom Carr
This song is just so fukin badass
Je Sa
The top of country southern rock. Im à country boy. Kiss trop france
Ranch Raim
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Carlos Samaniego
Ven a la ciudad de México
Je Sa
In France the people listen the shit music on they radio. But me i listen your music and à lot of hard southern blues and country.