Dege Legg, aka Brother Dege, will perform at the Treehouse Café at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 14.

Born on the bayou, Dege Legg does for the deep South what Tom Waits did for the L.A. underbelly.

Part French, Irish, Native American and Cajun, Dege was one of the South’s best kept secrets — until Quentin Tarantino personally selected one of his songs for his “Django Unchained” soundtrack.

Deje has spent a lifetime exploring the dark swamps, eschewing the limelight, brewing up his own unique 100-proof firewater for the soul. Like the mad lovechild of Son House and William Faulkner, Legg has burned a crooked trail to the promised land, creating his own batch of twisted “Psyouthern” roots music. Slide, resonators, screaming elements of Delta blues, punk, rock, metal, hippie ragas, folk and outlaw county are all just colors he uses to paint a genuinely original perspective of the decline and fall of western “psycivilization.”

To support his creative obsessions, Dege has worked many odd jobs over the years, including journalist, cab driver, machinist, case worker in a homeless shelter, dishwasher, tire mechanic and fry cook. In 2007, Dege lived in a homeless camp and wrote a feature story on the experience titled “Slipping through the Cracks” for the Independent Weekly in Lafayette, Louisiana, which won a Louisiana Press Award. In 2011, he began working full-time in a men’s homeless shelter.

Dege is the author of nine albums and two books (“The Battle Hymn of the Hillbilly Zatan Boys” and “Into the Great Unknown”). His music has been featured on the Discovery Channel and the National Geographic Channel.

Tickets, $15 for general admission, are on sale for this 21-and-older concert. Visit www.treehousebainbridge.com to learn more and purchase.