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Biography

Dege Legg is a Grammy-nominated musician (Brother Dege), artist, and award-winning writer from Louisiana. In addition to authoring three books, his music has appeared in film (hand-picked by Tarantino for the Django Unchained official soundtrack), TV (Discovery Channel, NetFlix, NatGeo), and radio (NPR). He currently tours the US and Europe with his band Brother Dege & the Brethren.

Schedule

Discussion
Taxicab Tales: Fact and Fiction
with Lee Durkee and Dege Legg

Cablog: Diary of a Cabdriver    

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.