Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
Do you know any bands that have set someone on fire for a music video or any guitar payers that can turn an ax, shovel or shotgun into a blues guitar?
That’s
exactly what you get with Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band. I was able to catch up with them at Rooster Walk between sets. Before we met up they had played a close-up, anything goes jam in the woods and we got an up-close look at Rev’s country blues guitar style. See the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T33V5TRt0wA
Look for their newest album- Poor Till Payday out this fall and be sure to catch them in a city near you.
Be sure to check out their podcast- Hard Times and Weirdness for incredible stories from the road- https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hard-times-weirdness/id1163954024?mt=2
The band’s website- http://www.bigdamnband.com/
Their great music videos- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7rH2pq_XzKwbkedfej4FKw
BROWN COUNTY, Ind. — Southern Indiana-bred singer-guitarist Reverend Peyton is the bigger-than-life frontman of Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band. He has earned a reputation as both a singularly compelling performer and a persuasive evangelist for the rootsy country blues styles that captured his imagination early in life and inspired him and his band to make pilgrimages to Clarksdale, Mississippi to study under such blues masters as T-Model Ford, Robert Belfour and David “Honeyboy” Edwards…
“We used a lot of vintage gear in the recording. I love that organic sound, and I’m always chasing that in everything I do. I just like things that feel timeless. Feeling timeless to me is way more important than feeling old. When you try to make something sound old, you’re trying too hard.’
“That lifelong pursuit of musical authenticity was instilled in his musical consciousness while Peyton was growing up in rural Indiana, where his early love for blues, ragtime, folk, country and other traditional styles gave him a sense of direction that would soon manifest itself in his own music. He and the Big Damn Band won a large and loyal fan base, thanks to their tireless touring efforts and high-energy showmanship, along with such acclaimed albums as Big Damn Nation, The Gospel Album, The Whole Fam Damnily, The Wages, Between the Ditches, So Delicious and the Charlie Patton tribute disc Peyton on Patton. ” From their website.