Deezie Brown (l) and Jake Lloyd (Photo by John Anderson)
Unless hobnobbing with the upper crust, you ve probably never been the guest of honor at a gala. That word – pronounced with a long vowel if you want to sound properly fancy – describes a lavish party: red carpets, black ties, mink, pink, and cufflinks.
Some heavy linguistic contrast thus comes into play with the title of the new Deezie Brown and Jake Lloyd collaboration,
Geto Gala. The former, a rapper/singer/producer specializing in diving deep into Texas-centric themes (revisit Slabs, Screw, and Stories From the Country: Deezie Brown & EC Mayne Soundtrack Bastrop County, Aug. 14, 2020), recalls when the phrase struck him.