If you’ve been even remotely plugged into the Dallas music scene, you’ve probably encountered John Pedigo. The Dallas native has spent time playing grunge, rockabilly and punk rock for rowdy and inebriated audiences of 10 and massive festival and theater stages where the crowds swelled to thousands.
Most recently, he’s been one-half of the O’s, an energetic, roots-influenced duo that has released four full-length albums and spent the better part of the past decade on an unceasing touring schedule traversing North America and Europe. Along the way, Pedigo’s music has earned comparisons to many leading lights of the alt-country and Americana genres, and he’s carved out an impressive group of well-known champions, including Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller, a past tour-mate.
While the O’s are still going strong, Pedigo’s latest project is a deeply personal affair written while in the grip of tragedy and grief. Pedigo’s Magic Pilsner — named after an infamously bad batch of homebrew that his father concocted at home one year — is the name of the album and band that serves as a tribute to his father, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2016. As he was processing the shock of this news, Pedigo set out to write and record a cycle of songs that would pay tribute to his father’s legacy.
With the idea that the songs could also serve as a form of entertainment while the health battle was at the forefront of his family’s attention, Pedigo began work soon after the diagnosis, and the prognosis reports, for a while, at least, seemed promising. However, Pedigo’s father died in May 2017. Rather than shelving the project, Pedigo pressed on, a process he found beneficial.
“I hate to use the word cathartic, but it certainly was that to a certain degree,” Pedigo explains in press announcements accompanying the album’s release. Soon, he was calling friends and tracking the songs into a cohesive album structure.
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