Grammy-nominated, guitarist, singer & songwriter, Brother Dege, (pronounced ‘deej’) has released the second video single “The Devil You Know,” from his forthcoming sixth full-length Aurora. It follows “Where The Black Flowers Grow” from the album, scheduled for release on March 15, 2024, via the Prophecy Productions record label. Catch the new video and more in the article below.
Pre-order Aurora here.
Brother Dege comments: “The new single “The Devil You Know” is a break-up song about not wanting to be alone – alone with one’s self after getting dumped, which is the lonely devilish place that we all know”, the American guitarist & singer muses. “At this point in my life, I don’t like to be alone. It’s an uncomfortable place for me – I feel crazy. Sounds pathetic, I know. But I’m the happiest when I’m connecting with another human being or creating art for therapeutic reasons – just like the giant sand mandala in the video. All art is temporary, like relationships and everything else. It all comes and goes.”
On Brother Dege’s sixth full-length Aurora, after quietly generating tens of millions of streams, earning widespread acclaim, and carving out a corner in pop culture history with a co-sign by none other than Quentin Tarantino, the American guitarist and singer Dege Legg pulls everyone into this lush musical world. An undercurrent of bluesy distortion tosses and turns in tectonic motion beneath bold hooks as his love for seventies and eighties staples funnels into a twisted 21st century take on Southern rock. He emerges out of this smoke with a vision without comparison, bringing grit and gusto in equal measure to Alt-Americana.
“This album deals with love, psychosis, and the dysfunctions that get repeated within these relationships and patterns of myself,” the musician and lyricist reveals. “I thought of it as an ouroboros – which is a snake that eats its own tail. In this context, the Aurora resembles the spectral light of falling in love.”
Aurora tracklisting:
01 Aurora
02 Where the Black Flowers Grow
03 Climbing Ivy
04 A Man Needs a Mommy
05 Turn of the Screw
06 Ouroboros
07 The Devil You Know
08 Loser’s Blues
09 The Longing
Available formats
“Aurora” is available as a Gatefold LP on a black vinyl, Gatefold LP on ltd. marbled black and gold vinyl, and as a Digipak CD.
Watch “Where the Black Flowers Grow” at this address: https://youtu.be/HFlUOzF5cCY
European Tour 2024
April 12 Lille (FR) tbc
April 13 Hastière (FR) La Cave
April 14 Paris (FR) L’International
April 16 Marseille (FR) Molotov
April 17 Lyon (FR) Rock N Eat
April 18 Seewen (CH) Gaswerk
April 19 Aarau (CH) Kiff
April 20 Bologna (IT) Freakout Club
April 22 München (DE) Kranhalle
April 23 Stuttgart (DE) Im Wizemann
April 24 Düsseldorf (DE) Zakk
April 25 Frankfurt (DE) Brotfabrik
April 26 Erfurt (DE) Bandhaus
April 27 Dresden (DE) Beatpol
April 28 Hamburg (DE) Nochtspeicher
April 29 Berlin (DE) Badehaus
US dates 2024
March 15 Austin, TX (US) SXSW, Atomic Music Group Showcase
March 16 Austin, TX (US) SXSW, Antone’s
More from Brother Dege:
If you make the trek down to Louisiana, you won’t leave the same way you came. Listening to Brother Dege, you breathe in the backwoods air, fall under the spell of the swamp, and get to know the ghosts of the Delta. Materialising at a crossroads between soul-rousing rock and roll, eloquent folk, graveyard Americana, and psychedelic bliss, the Grammy Award-nominated troubadour absorbs the spirit of his home state in threads of droning slide guitar, naked vocals, and blood-soaked poetry.
Born in Louisiana to ‘Air Force parents’, Dege Legg moved around quite a bit as a kid. The family lived in Northern California and Georgia before Dege and his mom eventually settled back in the South. He initially fell in love with seventies and eighties rock and roll, and listened to the likes of AC/DC. He taught himself how to play guitar, penning tunes of his own from the moment he picked up the instrument.
During 2004, emerging as Brother Dege, he introduced his sound via the album debut Trailerville. In its wake, the sophomore full-length Folk Songs of the American Longhair yielded a procession of anthems, including “Too Old to Die Young,” which Tarantino personally selected to play over a key sequence in Django Unchained and to grace the tracklist of the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. This even garnered a Grammy nod in the category of Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media. Dege parlayed this momentum into a string of fan favourite albums, namely How To Kill A Horse (2013), Scorched Earth Policy (2015), and Farmer’s Almanac (2018).
There can be no denying that Brother Dege is influenced by the music and sound of the Deep South, against which he rebelled in his youth. Yet even while the roots remain strong, the American guitarist and singer transcends his song another step further into the universal language of rock and roll with his new masterpiece Aurora. Lean back, close your eyes, and let these wonderful songs engulf you.
Line-up
“Brother” Dege Legg – vocals, guitars, dobro
Jim McGee – lead guitar
Kent Beatty – bass
Greg Travasos – drums
Guest musicians
Doug Belote – drums (on tracks 2, 6, 8)
Danny Devillier – drums (on track 5)
Hawley Joe Gary – drums (on track 2)
Ben Alleman – piano (on tracks 3, 7, 9)
Lyle Begnaud – pedal steel (on tracks 4, 7)
Tom Portman – violin (on track 1), squareneck Dobro (on tracks 2, 6, 8)
Julie Williams – background vocals (on track 3)
Jon Sanchez – harmonium (on track 9)
Lane Mack – guitar (on track 5)
Recorded by Dege Legg at Psy Studios, Lafayette, LA
Recorded by Justin Tocket at Dockside Studio, Maurice, LA
Recorded by Tony Daigle at Electric Comoland Studio, Lafayette, LA
Mixed by Tony Daigle & Dege Legg at Electric Comoland Studio, Lafayette, LA
Mastering by Jim Demain at Yes Master Studios, Nashville, TN
Artwork & Layout by Maria Viator
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