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Right out of rural Indiana comes The Rev
erend Peyton's Big Damn Band This finger
pickin' scrubboard scratchin' drum bucket
country blues trio conjure up the likes of such
greats as Son House and Charley Patton You
wanna talk about commitment to your art?
These guys sold everything they owned in a
garage sale and hit the open road playing over
shows a year From punk bluegrass rock
abilly roots and alt country shows to festivals
as diverse as Monolith Austin City Limits Van
couver Folk All Good and Lillehammer Blues
Weekend they've played 'em all “We’ll play
with anyone really” says the Reverend The
Big Damn Band has toured constantly in the
United States Canada and Europe steadily
building popularity and sales of their albums
“We come from the same tradition that Charley
Patton and Furry Lewis came from they just
took off with their instruments and went out
into the world to see what would stick ” Peyton
elaborates “They sang about what they were
going through in their time and we’re doing the
same thing in ours It’s a hard way to go but I
think that in this day and age it’s the way you
gotta get your music out to people Radio ain’t
going to be playing us you know what I
mean?” In June they signed with Los An
geles based SideOneDummy Records a label
they share with Flogging Molly They released
The Whole Fam Damily on August
through the label and it entered the Billboard
Blues Chart at The Big Damn Band features
the vocals and incredible finger picking guitar
style of "Reverend" Josh Peyton his wife
Breezy Peyton on washboard and vocals and
Aaron Persinger on drums Josh has been com
pared to country blues great Charley Patton In
fact the band’s latest release Peyton on Patton
is an album exclusively of Charley Patton songs
The album was recorded by Paul Mahern with
a single microphone in a single day to duplicate
the methods used to create the original Patton
recordings
On stage the Reverend plays a rusty
steel bodied National guitar a wood bod
ied National Trojan Resonator guitar and a
reproduction of a Gibson acoustic
He has recently added a string cigar box to his
stage collection Peyton uses no outboard gear
other than a three input switch box between
his guitars and the amplifier Breezy plays the
THE
REVEREND PEYTON’S
BIG DAMN BAND
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From the hills of Brown County, Indiana USA via their
debut appearance at Glastonbury + support Chris Bevington & Friends
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