LA Rockabilly artist DEKE DICKERSON rolls into SGF for the first time in years with his band, The Whippersnappers for a Sunday early show!!
Special Guests** The Centuries** from LA
and **Casey Lynne & the Dealbreakers**
$10 at the door.
End of Summer Cookout! Specials on Brats and, yes, Corndogs!
A great afternoon of music starting early @ 5pm!!
This is Rockabilly/American Roots music at its best. Originally from Columbia, MO, Deke has flourished in Los Angeles for decades playing and recording. Including with the Dave and Deke
Combo and Deke Dickerson and the Ecco-Fonics. His former band members have gone
on to play with Social Distortion, X, Tiger Army, and Los Straitjackets
Dickerson is the author of Sixteen Tons: The Merle Travis Story (BMG Books, 480
pages), the first-ever full-length biography devoted to Country Music Hall of Fame
member Merle Travis, a brilliant, multitalented, and deeply troubled artist who is widely
considered a genius. He has also had two books published by Voyageur Press, The Strat
in the Attic and The Strat in the Attic 2. As a well-known historian of roots music,
Dickerson has contributed liner notes to reissue projects for such labels as Capitol, RCA,
Bear Family, and Sundazed, and has written for several guitar magazines.
Dont miss this truly GREAT ARTIST!!!
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