Brother Dege - Folk Songs of the American Longhair '2010

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Hard Row to Hoe
02. The Girl Who Wept Stones
03. Too Old to Die Young
04. To Fill a Hole
05. House of the Dying Sun
06. The Battle of New Orleans
07. Dead & Gone
08. The Worlds Longest Hotdog
09. Old Angel Midnight
10. Black Is the Night


Folk Songs of the American Longhair is the debut album from Lafayette,
Louisiana’s BROTHER DEGE. The album was originally issued on CD and
digital formats back in 2010. On July 10, 2015, Magic Bullet Records is proud to
finally bring the critically-acclaimed album on vinyl format for the very first
time to listeners worldwide.

A true child of the swamp, BROTHER DEGE (aka Dege Legg) has summoned the exalted
ghosts of pre-war Southern Blues and channeled their haunted spirit into a fresh
Mekong-Delta-blues-by-way-of-Louisiana take on the music that was omnipresent
since birth. Folk Songs of the American Longhair is a pure, unadulterated slide
and dobro album captured painstakingly in the sheds, ancient houses, and open
fields of the bayou by four-time Grammy winning producer Tony Daigle (Dr. John,
Gatemouth Brown, Bobby Charles, Sonny Landreth, etc.). In spite of minimal
arrangements (one mic on his voice, one mic on the dobro, one mic on his foot
stomping), the album ends up feeling like an extra-sensory sonic séance akin
to “Son House meets Leonard Cohen… raw dirt, railroad pounding,
swamp-fried” (Classic Rock Magazine).

Spanning 10 tracks in total, the album grabbed everyone from Quentin Tarantino
(who featured “Too Old to Die Young” in his 2012 film and soundtrack
“Django Unchained”) to The Discovery Network’s
“Deadliest Catch” franchise (who featured “Hard Row to
Hoe” as 2010’s theme music to “After the Catch” with
Mike Rowe). This album has already been played and heard everywhere around the
world, now finally finding its truly rightful place on the shelves of vinyl
collections everywhere.

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