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Deke Dickerson is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

Dickerson has toured the world and established himself as one of the foremost purveyors of roots music, headlining festivals from Las Vegas to Finland. As a writer and music historian, he is well known for his regular column in Guitar Player magazine and feature articles in Vintage Guitar magazine and The Fretboard Journal.

Dickerson also writes liner notes for CD reissues, notably he has authored two enormous essay projects for Bear Family’s 2008 Merle Haggard box sets, for which Dickerson was honored by the 2009 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.

As an entrepreneur, Deke has partnered with Hallmark Guitars to produce the Deke Dickerson model guitar.

As a behind-the-scenes mover and shaker, Deke has recorded songs that have been featured in a variety of movies, TV shows, and radio programs, most recently recording the score to the Tribeca Documentary film The Wild And Wonderful Whites Of West Virginia. Dickerson has also had songs placed in such films and television shows as the 2010 box office smash Jackass 3-D to the Oscar-winning movie Sideways, HBO’s documentary Dirty Driving: Thundercars of Indiana and the hugely popular XM satellite radio show Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan. For this last, Deke not only contributed background guitar music but was also interviewed and quoted by Bob Dylan.

Deke is also well-known in the guitar world for his annual "Guitar Geek Festival" held in Anaheim, California, every January. Beginning as a tiny showcase for friends in 2004, the festival has grown into what has been dubbed as the world's greatest guitar festival. With an accent on roots music--surf, country, rockabilly, blues, and other Americana-based genres of music, Deke's Guitar Geek Festival has hosted such guitar legends as Duane Eddy, Dick Dale, Nokie Edwards of the Ventures, Buddy Holly's Crickets, Junior Brown, the Trashmen, Davie Allan, the Collins Kids, and Los Straitjackets, as well as many unknown legends and up-and-comers. The Guitar Geek Festival is immortalized on a yearly DVD release that has been named by Guitar Player Magazine in their "50 Greatest Guitar DVD's of all time" issue.

Deke’s latest music release is a new live album, Live At Duff's. The album was recorded at the popular local venue in Portland, Oregon, with Joel Paterson and The Modern Sounds from Chicago backing Deke up on the disc. The CD was released in 2010 and a vinyl pressing with unreleased bonus tracks is slated for release in 2011.

Live At Duff's once again proves why Deke Dickerson could be called the Renaissance man of roots music. Rising above the numerous revivalists and cartoonlike retro bands on today’s scene, he has forged something new, exciting, and original, utilizing all the great American musical styles of the last century to take his musical journey forward, not backward.

2011 will find Deke on the road promoting Live At Duff's and recording a new studio album for release later in the year. Tours across the United States will be supplemented with trips abroad to play festivals in Europe.

MORE ABOUT DEKE DICKERSON...

Deke was born on June 3, 1968 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. His childhood was spent in St. Louis, Missouri, Blacksburg, Virginia, and Columbia, Missouri. His father, Harman Dickerson, was an aircraft engineer employed by the Army before quitting in 1976 to restore antique airplanes for a living. His mother, Kitty Dickerson, is a PhD Professor Emerita and retired department chair from the Textile And Apparel Management College at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

During his years in Columbia, Missouri, Deke was exposed to a wide variety of music. He has been quoted as saying that the first three live music shows he attended at age 13 were Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys, legendary bluesman Willie Dixon, and Van Halen.

After playing in several local rockabilly bands, Deke formed The Untamed Youth at age 17 in his hometown of Columbia, Missouri: the legendary surf-garage band has released a total of eight full-length albums. In 1991 he moved to Los Angeles and joined Dave Stuckey to form the Dave & Deke Combo, a partnership that yielded two albums and a much-touted 2005 reunion at major rockabilly festivals. Embarking on a solo career in 1998, Deke was immediately signed to HighTone Records and released three albums for the label, touring nationally as a solo act and as an opening band for Cake, Mike Ness, and the Reverend Horton Heat (who has written on his website: "Deke Dickerson is the best rockabilly guitarist in the world!").

Deke has also toured nationally as lead singer for the legendary instrumental band Los Straitjackets. He has toured as a stripped-down rockin' three-piece band, with a pedal steel player doing primarily country material, and as a swingin' rhythm and blues fivesome with saxophones and piano. On his many recordings, he has had guests as diverse as the doo-wop group the Calvanes, punk guitar legend Billy Zoom, and Jerry Scoggins, the man who sang the original Beverly Hillbillies television show theme.

Sideman Career

Dickerson is well-known for backing up music legends. He has performed with a staggering number of rockabilly, country, blues, surf and punk heroes: Duane Eddy, Dick Dale, Nokie Edwards, Scotty Moore, James Burton, Link Wray, Hank Thompson, Rose Maddox, Wanda Jackson, Janis Martin, Ray Campi, The Collins Kids, Young Jessie, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, Billy Gibbons of Z.Z. Top, Reverend Horton Heat, Jack Earls, Carl Mann, Joe Clay, Ray Sharpe, Rudy Grayzell, Buddy Holly's Crickets, Billy Boy Arnold, Herb Remington, Arch Hall Jr., Billy Lee Riley, Sonny Burgess, Glen Glenn & Gary Lambert, D.J. Fontana, Paul Burlison, Hayden Thompson, Dale Hawkins, Johnny Powers, Ronnie Dawson, Alton Lott, Lee Dresser, Eddie Bond, Travis Wammack, Lady Bo, Barrence Whitfield, Jay Chevalier, Tony Conn, Johnny Legend, The Five Keys, The Clovers, The Bobbettes, Roddy Jackson, Jimmy Cavello, The Calvanes, Larry Donn, Don Maddox of the Maddox Brothers & Rose, Bo Dudley, Freddie Roulette, Larry LaRoux, Del Casher, Thom Bresh, Art Adams, Sleepy LaBeef, Johnny Meeks of Gene Vincent's Blue Caps, Dickie Harrell of Gene Vincent's Blue Caps, Russell Willaford of Gene Vincent's Blue Caps, Paul Johnson of the Belairs, Eddie Bertrand of Eddie & the Showmen, Jim Fuller of the Surfaris, Bob Spickard and Brian Carman of The Chantays, Willy Glover of The Pyramids, Jim Masoner of The Lively Ones, George Tomsco of The Fireballs, Boots Randolph, Ace Cannon, Earl Palmer, Jimmy Lee Fautheree, Jody Williams, Henry Gray, Johnny Farina of Santo and Johnny, Long John Hunter, Matt Lucas, Cowboy Jack Clement, Rudy Richard, Rocky Burnette, Plas Johnson, Cordell Jackson, The Fendermen, The Trashmen, Bill Kirchen, Darrel Higham, Brian Lonbeck, Red Simpson, Claude Trenier, Hadda Brooks, Billy Barty, Jerry Scoggins, Bill Haley's Original Comets, Junior Watson, Davie Allan, Big Sandy, Norm Hamlet of Merle Haggard's Strangers, Roy Head, Andy Shernoff and Handsome Dick Manitoba of The Dictators.

Discography

2011: DVD & Blu-Ray: Deke's Guitar Geek Festival Vol. 7 (Major Label Video)
2010: Live At Duff's (Major Label Records)
2010: DVD: Deke's Guitar Geek Festival Vol. 6 (Major Label Video)
2009: DVD: Deke's Guitar Geek Festival Vol. 5 (Major Label Video)
2008: King of the Whole Wide World (Major Label Records)
2008: DVD: Deke's Guitar Geek Festival Vol. 4 (Major Label Video)
2007: DVD: Deke's Guitar Geek Festival Vol. 3 (Major Label Video)
2006: Deke Down Under EP (Ecco-Fonic/Preston Records)
2006: DVD: Deke's Guitar Geek Festival Vol. 2 (Major Label Video)
2005: The Melody (Major Label Records)
2005: DVD: Deke's Guitar Geek Festival Vol. 1 (Major Label Video)
2005: w/The Dave & Deke Combo: There's Nothing Like An Old Hillbilly (Bucket Lid Records)
2004: My Name Is Deke (Greatest Hits) (HighTone Records)
2003: In 3 Dimensions (Major Label Records)
2003: Mr. Entertainment (Rock and Roll Inc. Records)
2001: This Is Eccofonic! (Ecco-Fonic Records)
2000: Rhythm Rhyme & Truth (HighTone Records)
2000: w/The Go-Nuts: Dunk And Cover (Lookout Records)
1999: More Million Sellers (HighTone Records)
1998: Number One Hit Record (HighTone Records)
1998: w/The Untamed Youth: Youth Runs Wild! (Norton Records)
1996: w/The Dave and Deke Combo: Hollywood Barn Dance (HeyDay Records)
1995: w/The Untamed Youth: Planet Mace (Estrus Records)
1995: w/The Go-Nuts: The World's Greatest Snak-Rock Superhero Band and Gorilla Entertainment Revue (Planet Pimp Records)
1994: w/The Dave & Deke Combo: Moonshine Melodies (No Hit Records)
1991: w/The Untamed Youth: Sophisticated International Playboys EP (Norton Records)
1990: w/The Untamed Youth: More Gone Gassers (Norton Records)
1989: w/The Untamed Youth: Some Kinda Fun! (Norton Records)

Film And Television

2011: Jackass 3.5 (DVD)
2010: Jackass 3D
2009: The Wild And Wonderful Whites Of West Virginia
2008: Dirty Driving: Thundercars of Indiana
2008: Theme song "Magic Carpet Melody" for Comedy Special 'Allah Made Me Funny'
2006: Surface (Episode 113)
2005: Monster Garage (with The Go-Nuts, appeared in the "Crispy Cruiser" Episode)
2005: Reeker
2004: Sideways
1999: Election
1998: Alien Avengers II (appeared onscreen as a member of The Radio Ranch Straight Shooters)
1997: Lewis and Clark and George
1997: Criminal Affairs
1996: Alien Avengers
1995: Not Like Us

References

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+'''Deke Dickerson''' is an [[United States|American]] [[singer]], [[songwriter]], and [[guitarist]].
-{{Pressrelease|date=December 2009}}
+Dickerson has toured the world and established himself as one of the foremost purveyors of roots music, headlining festivals from Las Vegas to Finland. As a writer and music historian, he is well known for his regular column in Guitar Player magazine and feature articles in Vintage Guitar magazine and The Fretboard Journal.
-'''Deke Dickerson''', born June 3, 1968, in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], is an [[United States|American]] [[rock and roll]] [[guitarist]]. His trademark is a customized [[Double neck guitar|double-neck]] [[Mosrite]]-style TNM guitar.
+Dickerson also writes liner notes for CD reissues, notably he has authored two enormous essay projects for Bear Family’s 2008 Merle Haggard box sets, for which Dickerson was honored by the 2009 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.
-Dickerson has toured the world and established himself as one of the foremost purveyors of roots music, headlining festivals from Las Vegas to Finland. As a writer and music historian, he is well known for his regular column in Guitar Player magazine and recently authored two enormous essay projects for Bear Family’s 2007 Merle Haggard box sets. As an entrepreneur, Deke has partnered with Hallmark Guitars to produce the Deke Dickerson model guitar, as unique in its design as its namesake. As a behind-the-scenes mover and shaker, Deke has recorded songs that have been featured in a variety of movies, TV shows, and radio programs, from the Oscar-winning movie Sideways to HBO’s documentary Dirty Driving: Thundercars of Indiana and the hugely popular XM satellite radio show Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan. For this last, Deke not only contributed background guitar music but was also interviewed and quoted by Bob Dylan.
+As an entrepreneur, Deke has partnered with Hallmark Guitars to produce the Deke Dickerson model guitar.
-Deke’s latest project is his new studio album, King of the Whole Wide World. Like his previous albums it’s a musical journey through the twisted roots of Americana, but this time the roots go deeper and further than ever before.
+As a behind-the-scenes mover and shaker, Deke has recorded songs that have been featured in a variety of movies, TV shows, and radio programs, most recently recording the score to the Tribeca Documentary film The Wild And Wonderful Whites Of West Virginia.  Dickerson has also had songs placed in such films and television shows as the 2010 box office smash Jackass 3-D to the Oscar-winning movie Sideways, HBO’s documentary Dirty Driving: Thundercars of Indiana and the hugely popular XM satellite radio show Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan. For this last, Deke not only contributed background guitar music but was also interviewed and quoted by Bob Dylan.
-He comments, “People love to label me rockabilly, but that’s just a small fraction of what I do. There are a couple of great rockabilly songs on the new album, but there are a lot of other styles as well, from bluegrass (“Boone County Blues”) to western swing (“Misshapen Hillbilly Gal”) to Memphis soul (“Make Way for a Better Man”) to doo-wop and rhythm and blues (“Itchin’ for My Baby”). The title track (“King of the Whole Wide World”) could even be called old-timey; it’s a tongue-in-cheek, autobiographical song about being a rich man without the constraints of money or fame. I decided the song sounded better with some 78 rpm record noise dubbed onto it. Call me sentimental, but I really think music like that sounds better with a little grit.”
+Deke is also well-known in the guitar world for his annual "Guitar Geek Festival" held in Anaheim, California, every January.  Beginning as a tiny showcase for friends in 2004, the festival has grown into what has been dubbed as the world's greatest guitar festival.  With an accent on roots music--surf, country, rockabilly, blues, and other Americana-based genres of music, Deke's Guitar Geek Festival has hosted such guitar legends as Duane Eddy, Dick Dale, Nokie Edwards of the Ventures, Buddy Holly's Crickets, Junior Brown, the Trashmen, Davie Allan, the Collins Kids, and Los Straitjackets, as well as many unknown legends and up-and-comers.  The Guitar Geek Festival is immortalized on a yearly DVD release that has been named by Guitar Player Magazine in their "50 Greatest Guitar DVD's of all time" issue.
-For the recording process, Deke enlisted the help of the many friends he’s made during his musical journeys. The core band consists of “Crazy” Joe Tritschler, the new guitar whiz-kid that has proved a fan favorite, as well as his old friends Chris “Sugarballs” Sprague on drums, Wally Hersom and Jimmy Sutton on bass, and Carl Sonny Leyland on the piano.
+Deke’s latest music release is a new live album, Live At Duff's.  The album was recorded at the popular local venue in Portland, Oregon, with Joel Paterson and The Modern Sounds from Chicago backing Deke up on the disc.  The CD was released in 2010 and a vinyl pressing with unreleased bonus tracks is slated for release in 2011.
-Guest artists include the western swing band the Lucky Stars, who back up Deke on the politically incorrect (but very funny) “Misshapen Hillbilly Gal,” and Mary Huff of Southern Culture on the Skids, who contributes high harmony vocals on the honky-tonk number “Do You Think of Me.”
-All in all, King of the Whole Wide World proves why Deke Dickerson could be called the Renaissance man of roots music. Rising above the numerous revivalists and cartoonlike retro bands on today’s scene, he has forged something new, exciting, and original, utilizing all the great American musical styles of the last century to take his musical journey forward, not backward.
+Live At Duff's once again proves why Deke Dickerson could be called the Renaissance man of roots music. Rising above the numerous revivalists and cartoonlike retro bands on today’s scene, he has forged something new, exciting, and original, utilizing all the great American musical styles of the last century to take his musical journey forward, not backward.
-will find Deke on the road promoting King of the Whole Wide World. Tours across the United States will be supplemented with trips abroad to Australia, Europe, and even Estonia in the former Soviet Union! Perhaps the title King of the Whole Wide World isn’t so tongue-in-cheek after all.
+will find Deke on the road promoting Live At Duff's and recording a new studio album for release later in the year. Tours across the United States will be supplemented with trips abroad to play festivals in Europe.
 MORE ABOUT DEKE DICKERSON...
+Deke was born on June 3, 1968 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.  His childhood was spent in St. Louis, Missouri, Blacksburg, Virginia, and Columbia, Missouri.  His father, Harman Dickerson, was an aircraft engineer employed by the Army before quitting in 1976 to restore antique airplanes for a living.  His mother, Kitty Dickerson, is a PhD Professor Emerita and retired department chair from the Textile And Apparel Management College at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
-Deke formed Untamed Youth at age 17 in his hometown of Columbia, Missouri: the legendary surf-garage band that has released a total of eight full-length albums. In 1991 he moved to Los Angeles and joined Dave Stuckey to form the Dave & Deke Combo, a partnership that yielded two albums and a much-touted 2005 reunion at major rockabilly festivals. Embarking on a solo career in 1997, Deke was immediately signed to HighTone Records and released three albums for the label, touring nationally as a solo act and as an opening band for Cake, Mike Ness, and the Reverend Horton Heat (who has written on his website: "Deke Dickerson is the best rockabilly guitarist in the world!").
+During his years in Columbia, Missouri, Deke was exposed to a wide variety of music.  He has been quoted as saying that the first three live music shows he attended at age 13 were Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys, legendary bluesman Willie Dixon, and Van Halen.
+After playing in several local rockabilly bands, Deke formed The Untamed Youth at age 17 in his hometown of Columbia, Missouri: the legendary surf-garage band has released a total of eight full-length albums. In 1991 he moved to Los Angeles and joined Dave Stuckey to form the Dave & Deke Combo, a partnership that yielded two albums and a much-touted 2005 reunion at major rockabilly festivals. Embarking on a solo career in 1998, Deke was immediately signed to HighTone Records and released three albums for the label, touring nationally as a solo act and as an opening band for Cake, Mike Ness, and the Reverend Horton Heat (who has written on his website: "Deke Dickerson is the best rockabilly guitarist in the world!").
+Deke has also toured nationally as lead singer for the legendary instrumental band Los Straitjackets.  He has toured as a stripped-down rockin' three-piece band, with a pedal steel player doing primarily country material, and as a swingin' rhythm and blues fivesome with saxophones and piano. On his many recordings, he has had guests as diverse as the doo-wop group the Calvanes, punk guitar legend Billy Zoom, and Jerry Scoggins, the man who sang the original Beverly Hillbillies television show theme.
+==Sideman Career==
+Dickerson is well-known for backing up music legends.  He has performed with a staggering number of rockabilly, country, blues, surf and punk heroes: Duane Eddy, Dick Dale, Nokie Edwards, Scotty Moore, James Burton, Link Wray, Hank Thompson, Rose Maddox, Wanda Jackson, Janis Martin, Ray Campi, The Collins Kids, Young Jessie, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, Billy Gibbons of Z.Z. Top, Reverend Horton Heat, Jack Earls, Carl Mann, Joe Clay, Ray Sharpe, Rudy Grayzell, Buddy Holly's Crickets, Billy Boy Arnold, Herb Remington, Arch Hall Jr., Billy Lee Riley, Sonny Burgess, Glen Glenn & Gary Lambert, D.J. Fontana, Paul Burlison, Hayden Thompson, Dale Hawkins, Johnny Powers, Ronnie Dawson, Alton Lott, Lee Dresser, Eddie Bond, Travis Wammack, Lady Bo, Barrence Whitfield, Jay Chevalier, Tony Conn, Johnny Legend, The Five Keys, The Clovers, The Bobbettes, Roddy Jackson, Jimmy Cavello, The Calvanes, Larry Donn, Don Maddox of the Maddox Brothers & Rose, Bo Dudley, Freddie Roulette, Larry LaRoux, Del Casher, Thom Bresh, Art Adams, Sleepy LaBeef, Johnny Meeks of Gene Vincent's Blue Caps, Dickie Harrell of Gene Vincent's Blue Caps, Russell Willaford of Gene Vincent's Blue Caps, Paul Johnson of the Belairs, Eddie Bertrand of Eddie & the Showmen, Jim Fuller of the Surfaris, Bob Spickard and Brian Carman of The Chantays, Willy Glover of The Pyramids, Jim Masoner of The Lively Ones, George Tomsco of The Fireballs, Boots Randolph, Ace Cannon, Earl Palmer, Jimmy Lee Fautheree, Jody Williams, Henry Gray, Johnny Farina of Santo and Johnny, Long John Hunter, Matt Lucas, Cowboy Jack Clement, Rudy Richard, Rocky Burnette, Plas Johnson, Cordell Jackson, The Fendermen, The Trashmen, Bill Kirchen, Darrel Higham, Brian Lonbeck, Red Simpson, Claude Trenier, Hadda Brooks, Billy Barty, Jerry Scoggins, Bill Haley's Original Comets, Junior Watson, Davie Allan, Big Sandy, Norm Hamlet of Merle Haggard's Strangers, Roy Head, Andy Shernoff and Handsome Dick Manitoba of The Dictators.
-In recent years Deke has also toured nationally as lead singer for the legendary instrumental band Los Straitjackets and with the great western guitar-and-steel-guitar duo Biller & Wakefield. He has toured as a stripped-down rockin' three-piece band and as a swingin' rhythm and blues fivesome with saxophones and piano. On his many recordings, he has had guests as diverse as the doo-wop group the Calvanes and punk guitar legend Billy Zoom.
-Playing an average of 225 shows every year throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and Australia, Deke spends his rare moments at home with recording projects (he owns his own label, Ecco-Fonic Records) and writing articles and liner notes for music magazines and CD box set reissues.
 ==Discography==
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 : DVD: Deke's Guitar Geek Festival Vol. 4 (Major Label Video)<BR>
 : DVD: Deke's Guitar Geek Festival Vol. 3 (Major Label Video)<BR>
+: Deke Down Under EP (Ecco-Fonic/Preston Records)<BR>
 : DVD: Deke's Guitar Geek Festival Vol. 2 (Major Label Video)<BR>
 : The Melody (Major Label Records)<BR>
 : DVD: Deke's Guitar Geek Festival Vol. 1 (Major Label Video)<BR>
 : w/The Dave & Deke Combo: There's Nothing Like An Old Hillbilly (Bucket Lid Records)<BR>
+: My Name Is Deke (Greatest Hits) (HighTone Records)<BR>
 : In 3 Dimensions (Major Label Records)<BR>
+: Mr. Entertainment (Rock and Roll Inc. Records)<BR>
+: This Is Eccofonic! (Ecco-Fonic Records)<BR>
 : Rhythm Rhyme & Truth (HighTone Records)<BR>
 : w/The Go-Nuts: Dunk And Cover (Lookout Records)<BR>
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 : w/The Untamed Youth: More Gone Gassers (Norton Records)<BR>
 : w/The Untamed Youth: Some Kinda Fun! (Norton Records)
+==Film And Television==
+: Jackass 3.5 (DVD)<BR>
+: Jackass 3D<BR>
+: The Wild And Wonderful Whites Of West Virginia<BR>
+: Dirty Driving: Thundercars of Indiana<BR>
+: Theme song "Magic Carpet Melody" for Comedy Special 'Allah Made Me Funny'<BR>
+: Surface (Episode 113)<BR>
+: Monster Garage (with The Go-Nuts, appeared in the "Crispy Cruiser" Episode)<BR>
+: Reeker<BR>
+: Sideways<BR>
+: Election<BR>
+: Alien Avengers II (appeared onscreen as a member of The Radio Ranch Straight Shooters)<BR>
+: Lewis and Clark and George<BR>
+: Criminal Affairs<BR>
+: Alien Avengers<BR>
+: Not Like Us
 ==References==
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 ==External links==
 * [http://www.dekedickerson.com/ Deke Dickerson homepage]
+* [http://www.guitargeekfestival.com/ Deke's Guitar Geek Festival Website]
 * [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/bio/index.jsp?pid=143756 Deke Dickerson bio]
 * [http://www.stlblues.net/deke_06.htm www.stlblues.net]