BROTHER DEGE

STREAM: Brother Dege Interview at KRVS.ORG | Talking about the past year recording new music + CABLOG audiobook, etc. 

https://www.krvs.org/post/medicine-ball-caravan-september-20-2021

First Louisiana show in 1.5 years. 
It's a good excuse to come on out
Or make the trip to Southwest Louisiana
and come do the thing with us. 

 

BROTHER DEGE & THE BRETHREN 2021-2022 TOUR DATES 

USA 

10/16/21 Lake Charles, LA, ChuckFest (Headlining) 

11/5/21 Lafayette, LA, Grouse Room 

11/6/21 TBA 

2022 | EUROPE 

22.04.22       Bielefeld - Neue Schmiede    www.neue-schmiede.de, 0521 1443003  

23.04.22       Salzgitter - Kniestädter Kirche    www.salzgitter.de  

24.04.22       Brake - Central theater    www.centraltheaterbrake.de  

27.04.22       Hamburg - Downtown Bluesclub    www.downtown-bluesclub.de 

28.04.22       Berlin - Kulturbrauerei    www.kesselhaus.net  

29.04.22       Torgau - Kulturbastion    www.kulturbastion.de  

01.05.22       Oelsnitz - Katharinenkirche    www.oelsnitz.de  

03.05.22       Bad Nauheim - Zugluft    ef-wetterau.de  

04.05.22       Unna - Lindenbrauerei    www.lindenbrauerei.de  

05.05.22       Reutlingen - franz.K    www.franzk.net,  

06.05.22       Freiburg im Breisgau - Jazzhaus    www.jazzhaus.de  

07.05.22       Puchheim - PUC Kulturzentrum    www.puc-puchheim.de 

08.05.22       Rödermark - AZ    www.az-rödermark.de,  

10.05.22       Biberach - Kulturhalle Abdera    www.abdera-bc.de  

11.05.22       Ingolstadt - KKB Neue Welt    www.neun-ingolstadt.de  

12.05.22      Bad Reichenhall - Magazin 3    www.magazin3.de  

13.05.22      A - Hard - Kammgarn    www.kammgarn.at  

14.05.22      Kirchheim/Teck - Bastion    www.club-bastion.de  

15.05.22      Waldkraiburg - Kulturhaus    www.kultur-waldkraiburg.de  

18.05.22      Trier - TUFA    www.tufa-trier.de  

21.05.22      Farsleben - Webershof    www.webers-hof.de

OUT NOW: CABLOG AUDIOBOOK | Available on all platforms (except Audible, they’re dragging ass).  

Welcome to the wackiest soundtrack for your next summer road trip. Like a SEVEN-HOUR serial podcast, the CABLOG AUDIOBOOK was created as a cinematic “audio movie” for your ears - rather than just a straight read-through of the text - the audiobook version of CABLOG: Diary of a Cabdriver takes an immersive dive into Legg’s five years working on the night shift, driving a taxi through southern Louisiana. 

AUDIOBOOK PURCHASE LINKS: https://linktr.ee/brotherdege 

“I listened to a few audiobooks in preparation, and found that they were all kind of boring - even if the content was interesting,” says Legg. “Something in the dry delivery of most of the narrators - with no other sound around it - made them seem monotonous, especially coming from a musical background where we often cram dozens of tracks on top of one another in the studio.” 

Utilizing his decades of experience as a musician, Legg spent four months recording the CABLOG audiobook, incorporating actual field recordings and atmospheric foley to season and enrich the recorded text. Throughout the entirety of the audiobook, Legg’s own personal, ruminative narration is surrounded, engulfed, and intertwined with rural ambience, inner-city chaos, CB radio chatter, cacophonous bars, and the meditative hum of traffic as he tunnels his way through all the ups and downs of the 233 page text. 

“When I drive into the ghettos and back alleys, you hear it in the audiobook,” says Legg. “When someone I want the listener to feel it. They should be enmeshed in the experience as it happens.” 

https://linktr.ee/brotherdege 

SUMMARY 

A broke and unemployed musician lands a gig driving a cab through the swamplands of south Louisiana while bobbing and weaving through a nighttime world ruled by drugs, guns, saints and strippers. In this fuel-injected work of creative nonfiction, Grammy-nominated musician and award-winning writer Dege Legg (aka Brother Dege) recounts five years behind the wheel while documenting the underworld of Lafayette and its Cajun and Creole hinterlands. From the penthouse suites on high to the crack houses on the low, Legg churns out thick-skinned tales about downtrodden derelicts, minor victories for the forgotten, and redemption in the face of it all. CABLOG reverberates with tones of Bukowski, Miller, Chandler and Kerouac while charting its own new territory of the human spirit.

OUT TODAY: CABLOG AUDIOBOOK. Available on all platforms (except Audible, they’re dragging ass).  

Welcome to the wackiest soundtrack for your next summer road trip. Like a SEVEN-HOUR serial podcast, the CABLOG AUDIOBOOK was created as a cinematic “audio movie” for your ears - rather than just a straight read-through of the text - the audiobook version of CABLOG: Diary of a Cabdriver takes an immersive dive into Legg’s five years working on the night shift, driving a taxi through southern Louisiana. 

AUDIOBOOK PURCHASE LINKS: https://linktr.ee/brotherdege 

“I listened to a few audiobooks in preparation, and found that they were all kind of boring - even if the content was interesting,” says Legg. “Something in the dry delivery of most of the narrators - with no other sound around it - made them seem monotonous, especially coming from a musical background where we often cram dozens of tracks on top of one another in the studio.” 

Utilizing his decades of experience as a musician, Legg spent four months recording the CABLOG audiobook, incorporating actual field recordings and atmospheric foley to season and enrich the recorded text. Throughout the entirety of the audiobook, Legg’s own personal, ruminative narration is surrounded, engulfed, and intertwined with rural ambience, inner-city chaos, CB radio chatter, cacophonous bars, and the meditative hum of traffic as he tunnels his way through all the ups and downs of the 233 page text. 

“When I drive into the ghettos and back alleys, you hear it in the audiobook,” says Legg. “When someone I want the listener to feel it. They should be enmeshed in the experience as it happens.” 

https://linktr.ee/brotherdege 

SUMMARY 

A broke and unemployed musician lands a gig driving a cab through the swamplands of south Louisiana while bobbing and weaving through a nighttime world ruled by drugs, guns, saints and strippers. In this fuel-injected work of creative nonfiction, Grammy-nominated musician and award-winning writer Dege Legg (aka Brother Dege) recounts five years behind the wheel while documenting the underworld of Lafayette and its Cajun and Creole hinterlands. From the penthouse suites on high to the crack houses on the low, Legg churns out thick-skinned tales about downtrodden derelicts, minor victories for the forgotten, and redemption in the face of it all. CABLOG reverberates with tones of Bukowski, Miller, Chandler and Kerouac while charting its own new territory of the human spirit.

PUBLISHED BY UL PRESS

FIRST GIG OF 2021: CORCELLES, SWITZERLAND FESTILAB 8/14/21

ONLY THE DUST | CABLOG SCORE 

BUY HERE:
BANDCAMP: https://brotherdege.bandcamp.com/
BROTHERDEGE.NET: https://brotherdege.net/merch

DESCRIPTION 
Only the Dust is a 35-track ambient/instrumental music score, composed by Dege Legg for his nonfiction audiobook CABLOG (UL Press). Featuring ambient drones, slide guitar, Dobro, field recordings, piano, organs, sound design, and experimental percussion, the 87-minute song cycle radiates, blooms, and crawls with the swampy atmospherics and ethereal shadowplay of deep south Louisiana, flowing like a three-album suite of psychic-meditation music for haunted souls, lost in the outermost corners of the night. 

PLAYERS 
Dege Legg: Dobro, acoustic guitars, piano, organ, drones, noise, percussion, etc.  
Kent Beatty: bass on “Shop Talk” 
Greg Travasos: drums on “The Death of Jazz-Blues” 
D-Con: vocals on “Get on My Love” 
G-Trav: beats & programming on “Get on My Love” 

TRACK LIST | ONLY THE DUST 
1    Nonstop To Nowheresville                 
2    Heartstrings                         
3    Dread Lullaby                          
4    Only The Dust                      
5    Edict of Worms                     
6    The Journey                          
7    The Great Divide                     
8    Clothed in Flesh                     
9    The Death of Jazz Blues                  
10    Emergency Room Blues                 
11    The Speed Of Light                 
12    Shop Talk                     
13    Heart Calibration                     
14    A Bottle of Dead Dreams                 
15    Get on My Love                      
16    Pentecostal Party Train                  
17    St. Francis Motel                     
18    Dime Bag of Schwag (Wallet)              
19    Table for One                          
20    The Hive                         
21    The Science of Animal Husbandry             
22    Third World America                     
23    Xmas in Retrograde                      
24    Flaccid Traction (Ed's Theme)              
25    The Can Man                          
26    Beasts of a Sort                     
27    Long Live Suicide (Train Wreck)               
28    Odor of the Gods                      
29    Dead In A Tree                     
30    Shiloh Trailer Park                      
31    A Crack in the Sun (Into The Night)             
32    A Man Called Pie                     
33    The One-Armed Man (LSK)                 
34    Hope is the Only Escape                 
35    Welcome to Motel City (Black Hole)             
36    Where Did Wendy Go?  

NEW AMERICAN LONGHAIR MEN'S T-SHIRTS & WOMEN'S TANKS NOW UP at my site.

First time avail.

https://brotherdege.net/merch

NEW PODCAST INTERVIEW W/DEGE LEGG IS UP AT CHAPTER ONE PODCAST HOSTED BY DEMETHIUS JACKSON. 

PEEP IT ON ALL THE USUAL FORMATS OR GO HERE: https://ch1podcast.com/2020/12/28/ep82-cablog-dege-legg/

BUY 2 COPIES OF CABLOG BOOK AND GET 1 FREE. HOLIDAY BUNDLE. GIFT THEM TO YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY, AND COWORKERS. 

BUY HERE: https://brotherdege.net/merch

CABLOG ARTICLE & INTERVIEW W/DEGE LEGG AT AMERICAN BLUES SCENE. 

BUY: https://ulpress.org/products/cablog-diary-of-a-cabdriver 

https://www.americanbluesscene.com/dege-legg-publishes-nonfiction-book-cablog-diary-of-a-cabdriver/

CHECK OUT MY INTERVIEW ON THE JO & DANNY SHOW ON XOTV. 
https://xotv.me/channels/313-the-jo-and-danny-show/vod_videos/5590-the-jo-plus-danny-show-its-a-thing-cab-logs

IT'S GOING DOWN! THUR.NOV.12 at 6-7 PM CENTRAL TIME USA. JOIN ME, GARDEN DISTRICT BOOKS (NOLA) AND R.REESE FULLER FOR THE VIRTUAL LAUNCH PARTY OF CABLOG VIA ZOOM. COME JOIN US AS WE DELVE INTO THE BACK STORY, KOOKY DETAILS, AND UNCENSORED HISTORY OF THE MAKING OF THE CABLOG BOOK. GONNA BE LIT. 

NOTE: YOU MUST RSVP TO JOIN THE LAUNCH PARTY. 
RSVP HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqdO2tqDwqHdHcIqhO3qkIsC3WVA5GJ_MA

GARDEN DISTRICT BOOKS: https://www.gardendistrictbookshop.com/event/virtualzoom-event-dege-legg-author-cablog-diary-cabdriver-conversation-r-reese-fuller

PUBLISHER: ULPRESS.ORG

DEGE INTEREVIEW ON CABLOG BOOK AT KRVS WITH JUDITH MERIWETHER.
https://www.krvs.org/post/apres-midi-afternoon-classics-november-9-2020-dege-legg?fbclid=IwAR0dwpthbmPcGx6srVMVonurzbWU-6VdFxSwuWhbQWlUG2xu3CHbAs2EN-o

I'l be on WWOZ today with Murf, talking about the CABLOG BOOK>
New Orleans Music Show with Murf Reeves 
Monday Nov 09th, 2020 
11:00 am - 2:00 pm CENTRAL TIME
LISTEN ONLINE: https://www.wwoz.org/

MORNING ADVOCATE ARTICLE ON CABLOG BOOK | by John Wirt.  

https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/music/article_c91f4bf0-1d67-11eb-b5f0-87fed17426b3.html

JOIN ME & AWARD-WINNING WRITER & HOST REESE FULLER FOR THE CABLOG ZOOM VIRTUAL LAUNCH PARTY SPONSORED AND HOSTED BY GARDEN DISTRICT BOOKS IN NEW ORLEANS. YOU MUST REGISTER FOR THE LAUNCH PARTY TO "ZOOM" WITH US, SO COME ON AND HANG. I'LL RETELL STORIES FROM THE BOOK, DISCUSS THE JOB, AND DO A Q&A. 

WHEN: THURS.NOV.12
TIME: 6 PM
WHERE: 
REGISTER / RSVP HERE: https://www.gardendistrictbookshop.com/event/virtualzoom-event-dege-legg-author-cablog-diary-cabdriver-conversation-r-reese-fuller

THE PRINTS ARE IN!
OUT: NOV 12.
Preorder CABLOG (my NONFICTION BOOK about driving a cab 2003-08) and I’ll sign and ship now. Published by UL PRESS. 

PREORDER: https://brotherdege.net/cablog 

OR 

ULPRESS.org

CABLOG: DIARY OF A CABDRIVER (NONFICTION BOOK) VIRTUAL RELEASE PARTY: 
HOSTED BY: R Reese Fuller & Dege Legg, & GARDEN DISTRICT BOOKS (NEW ORLEANS) 

FORMAT: ZOOM: https://www.gardendistrictbookshop.com/event/virtualzoom-event-dege-legg-author-cablog-diary-cabdriver-conversation-r-reese-fuller

FB: https://fb.me/e/1xXgew9Tj

Join Dege Legg in conversation with award-winning Lafayette writer R. Reese Fuller as they discuss Dege's experiences driving a cab for five years in southern Louisiana. The event will include the retelling of select stories included in the book, background anecdotes, shop talk, music talk, Reese & Dege's time working as journalists, material that didn't make the cut, and gang of other craziness related to the CABLOG book published by UL Press. 

Thursday, November 12th 6-7 PM 
Hosted by Garden District Book Shop, New Orleans 
https://www.gardendistrictbookshop.com/ 

PREORDER CABLOG BOOK: https://brotherdege.net/cablog