All Tarantino fans will know Brother Dege: his song 'too old to die young' is part of the soundtrack for 'Django unchained'.
Brother Dege ("deej") a/k/a Dege Legg is one of the best-kept secrets in the Deep South: an award-winning writer, musician, journalist. Like Faulkner genetically spliced with Son House, Legg plays slide guitar in the old, haunted tradition of the blues greats, breathing new life into the revered Delta idiom. With the raw twang of his Dobro calling up ghosts of the past, he sings of his own experience growing up in the Deep South— roaming the playground of the swamplands.
Brother Dege's album Folk Songs of the American Longhair is a tour de force artwork that rages from barn burners to ancient Delta meditations to whirlwind slide-loop hurricances. Recorded in a shed behind his house in Louisiana, Legg composed the ten original tunes in the slide-Delta tradition, painstakingly paying tribute to the old masters while tossing faux-retro, hillbilly hokum into the trend hopping dust bin that it belongs. Much like the field recordings of Alan Lomax, the album tunnels into the ancient mysteries of pre-war blues and its devil-obsessed masters. In a return to the crude basics, almost all of the tracks feature only one vocal, one slide guitar and one foot stomping. Folk Songs of the American Longhair could possibly be the Delta-slide, millennial reboot for generations to come. The journey continues...