Cactus Lee

Cactus Lee is Texas music. It’s Austin nightclub music. Dusty dancefloor cattle call music. It’s rich and referential music, at times childlike and dreamy, all the while steered with wit not unlike John Prine or Tom T. Hall.
Since 2019, Cactus Lee has released six albums, including two in 2023, a live album, and two EPs. The project has always been a solo endeavor for Dehan, who has written and self-recorded his music on a four-track before assembling various lineups around Austin.
In 2022, Dehan performed a solo acoustic set at a laundromat to test songs that would later appear on the Perfect Middle Hall EP. The Austin Chronicle described the recordings as having “fuller production with some new instrumentation [that] fills out Cactus Lee's hippie folk sound – more Gene Clark than Gene Autry, more Jackson C. Frank than Alan Jackson. Which is to say, the music is more inspired by the dirty realism of Seventies Americana-makers than country counterparts.”
2023 saw the release of two albums: Caravan, a full band studio affair recorded with Paul Simon's producer Kyle Crusham, and Big Red, a lower-fi record that showcased Dehan's strong songwriting abilities.