He also discovered Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, Gabriel García Márquez and Beat Generation's writers.
He formed the band Santeria as a singer with other musicians : Primo (guitare), Krishna Kasturi (drum), Chad Willis (bass) and Rob Rushing (percussion).
[11] David Maine of PopMatters said the album was ranged "from quietly desperate to careening full-tilt boogie" with slide guitar, Southern gothic and rock and roll.
[12] For Walter Pierce of The Independent, Kingdoms of Folly was a "musical departure from the dark, Southern tribalism of Santeria".
[14] Brother Dege, called by the press "the best kept secrets in the Deep South" went in solo tour in America with a dobro and for the first time in Europe (Belgium and Netherland).
[13][15] The producers of American reality television series Deadliest Catch licensed the song "Hard Row to Hoe".
[16] Quentin Tarantino heard at Sirius XM the song "Too Old to Die Young" and wanted it in his movie's score, Django Unchained.
To Robert Gluck of The Aquarian he was emerged into the spotlight with the same attention as The Black Keys and Gary Clark, Jr..[18] In 2015 the album Scorched Earth Policy was atypical because he mixed new songs "haunting and catchy compositions" for OffBeat, old demos, covers (Black Sabbath, Hüsker Dü).
[19] To Blues Rock Review the album was full of surprises with "undertones of funky, psychedelic production techniques such as echoing background vocals and spacey, saturated drums".
[24][25] To Peter Lindblad of Elmore Magazine "Farmer’s Almanac is a broken piece of scuffed luggage bulging with troubled narratives of angels, drifters, ghosts and oddballs trapped in a hole of small-town desperation".
In promotional materials Brother Dege said: "As dark as it gets, I'd like for people to know there's some kind of twisted light at the end of the tunnel that's worth reaching together.