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INFO: DEGELEGG.COM
Complete 30 minutes slide-guitar dobro set by
Dege Legg. Filmed on September 13, 2006 at
307 Jazz & Blues Club, Lafayette, Louisiana.
Directed by Matt Roberts for A.O.C.
broadcast.
Writing in the old, haunted tradition of
slide-blues greats, writer/musician Dege Legg
breathes new life in the Delta Blues genre,
not by imitation, but by infusing original
songs with his experience of growing up in
the Deep South—young, white, alienated,
freak-in-the-country-style. With Robert
Johnson on Thorazine-style slide work paired
with Middle-East-Meets-South melodies, a
mind-blowing new take on an old tradition
emerges—one that is surreal, warped, odd, &
droning, but also firmly rooted in the
troubled and death-obsessed masters of old.
Dege adamantly avoids the flashy, purist,
mid-life-crisis white-guy school of slide
playing—with its hoaky attempts at singing
about country-living and faux-cotton picking.
Instead you hear battered tales of
apocalyptic prophesies, endless darkness,
yearning stoners, backwoods drugs,
hallucinatory angels, burning barns,
junkyards, and the floating ghosts of the
Deep South. All of it is told in an honest
voice by one who lived through it, born &
raised, Cajun, in small town southern
Louisiana. This is the new real delta blues.
New All-Slide CD coming in 08.
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