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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 deal. Dege Legg (aka Brother Dege), Cajun born and Louisiana raised.
Genre:
Blues: Delta Style
Release Date:
2010
Folk Songs of the American Longhair
Brother Dege
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(884501280914)
Record Label: GolarWash Labs & Records
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Brother Dege Legg is most known for being the mainman in the band Santaria, who describe their sound as ‘psyouthern hard rock’! Formed in 1994, since then for the Lousiana band it’s been, says, Legg, “Years of gigs, madness, tours, voodoo curses, wrecked vans, band members losing their minds and much more, detailed in the online Santeria Tour Journals, read by countless freaks across the world.”
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 deal. Dege Legg (aka Brother Dege), the Cajun born and Louisiana raised leader of the band Santeria, is about to release his highly anticipated “slide/Dobro record” entitled Folk Songs Of The American Longhair, co-produced by 4x Grammy-winner Tony Daigle (Dr. John, Sonny Landreth, Gatemouth Brown, Bobby Charles, etc) and Santeria lead-guitarist 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 isn't 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.
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Rock musician has a go at Delta Blues - sounds pretty good to me
author: Colin Spence
The music on 'Folk Songs of the American Longhair' is a rock musician's take on Louisiana Delta Blues (all of the songs are written by Dege Legg). Whilst the album rocks pretty hard occasionally, I think many songs work well as blues also - thanks, in no small measure, to the impressive dobro slide playing which dominates the album instrumentally. Featured prominently also, are much bass drum thumping and Dege's somewhat strangulated Southern rasp. The basic tracks were 'recorded by Dege in a shed in Southern Louisiana'; also, there are some studio overdubs and a bit of electronic tweaking - nevertheless, much of the album's raw quality is still retained.
The additional instruments played (organ, fiddle, electric guitar, electric bass and djembe) don't get much of a look in - it would have been nice to hear a bit more of these (including a few short solos) because there isn't a great deal of instrumental variety from one song to the next. Lyrically, you don't get a wide range of themes - with most of the songs concentrating on hardship, despair and the point of human existence; but nonetheless, the lyrics do drive the message home, and they also lend an air of blues/roots authenticity to the music.
'Folk Songs of the American Longhair' is an album of strung-out Southern Gothic blues/roots-rock with a slight spooky feel. It features some terrific dobro playing, interesting vocals, a high groove quotient, and a mood that never inadvertently strays into anything remotely cheerful or optimistic.
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