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As his name indicates, Dege (pronounced Deejh) Legg is an interesting guy. Using the moniker Brother Dege for his creative output, he has spent more than a decade crafting haunting and hypnotic Southern gothic yarns. His latest album How to Kill a Horse continues that trend and does so in a manner that is worth paying attention to. It goes without saying that the disc is arguably his best to date. The album opens with the swampy and thick “Black Sea,” a stormy tour-de-force with pristine vocals and a distinct sense of place. Rather quickly it is obvious that Legg is a Southern musician singing Southern tunes and the duration of How to Kill a Horse elucidates that rather beautifully. 

 The rustic cut “The Darker Side of Me” is acoustic blues at its finest and an an absolute scorcher from start to finish. You can practically feel the Louisiana sweat drip from his dobro on the pained confessional “How to Kill a Horse.” That the title track is also the most fleshed out and developed song thus far on the album is probably no surprise. Despite its dark title and subject matter, “How to Kill a Horse” is a top notch song from an artist who deserves far wider acclaim. The first half of the album closes with “Judgement Day,” an effort that sounds a lot like “The Darker Side of Me” only darker and more ominous. Arguably the most intriguing song on the album is the saturnine instrumental “O’Dark 30,” a complete and fully developed cocktail of histrionics, suspense and expert musicianship.

 1. The Black Sea (3:18)
 2. The Darker Side of Me (3:59)
 3. How to Kill a Horse (4:43)
 4. Judgement Day (2:41)
 5. O’Dark 30 (4:49)
 6. Poor Momma’s Child (3:07)
 7. Wehyah (3:34)
 8. Crazy Motherf&$*er (5:23) 
 9. The River (4:09) 
 10. Last Man Out of Babylon (7:56)

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