The Rev. Peyton - National Guitar/Flat Top Gibson,
Washboard Breezy Peyton - Washboard,
Jayme Peyton - Drums
Influences
Charley Patton, Bukka White, Otha Turner, Mississippi John Hurt, Furry Lewis, Son House, Big Bill Broonzy, Yank Rachell, Robert Belfour, Pink Anderson, Scrapper Blackwell, Fred McDowell
Sounds Like
They sound like Robert Johnson on crack... they get one hell of a sound out of an acoustic guitar, washboard, and snare drum. It's easy to see why they are big...
Steve Hammer, Nuvo Newsweekly
The Whole Fam Damnily!
New Full Length album, The Whole Fam Damnily will be in stores Aug.5, 2008. You can order your copy now! Just click this banner and order!
""Their latest full length CD, Big Damn Nation, is a hopped-up crash course in raw Delta Blues pounded out with crazed fury. But The Reverend is no modern primitive. Traces of the East Coast Piedmont Style and Southern Gospel heard in his high-energy guitar wrangling betray a clever mind, well-versed in numerous other genres, as well. Like a rabid wolf crossed with Leadbelly, Reverend Peyton bellows and howls wildly while his right thumb drops like a sledgehammer on the guitar strings, threatening to shatter his national steel under the force of his frenzied picking style.... Stomp your feet and clap your hands (boom-chank).This shit is red hot. (RH) Grade: A "
-Mike Breen, Cincinnati CityBeat " - MIKE BREEN, Cincinnati CityBeat.
"The Rev. Peyton swings country blues like a velvet hammer, its impact cloaked in rural tones and a timeless simplicity. Yet in an unassuming folk/Americana way, Reverend Peyton is capable of riling the same beast he soothes. It is this type of raw and immediate blues that addresses the human urge directly. It is this type of blues that justifies and chronicles the human condition. It is this type of blues that, in all its secular glory, can move the spirit, no matter how weak the flesh.
Peyton and his Big Damn Band - which also features his wife, Washboard Breezy, and brother Jayme, on kick and snare drums - were plowing through a set at a gig in Colorado one night when the fervor created by Peyton's frenzied fingers, his wife's work on the washboard, and his little brother's bare-bone drumming had the room in a steady boil. For a woman near the stage, confined to a wheelchair, it was all she needed to hear. She got up."
- Frank De Blase, Rochester City Newspaper.
BOOKING
Skyline Music LLC.
Mark Lourie mark@skylineonline.com
MANAGEMENT Deer Match Management
Matt Schwegman
management@bigdamnband.com
PUBLICITY
Jon Pebsworth
SideOneDummy Records
Ph: 323-790-0990 ext: 222
Fx: 323-790-0988
1944 N. Cahuenga Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90068
jon@sideonedummy.com
Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band's Friend Space (Top 16)
When the ear hears, observe the mind. Does it get caught up and make a story out of the sound? Is it disturbed? You can know this, stay with it, be aware. At times you may want to escape from the sounds, but that is not the way out. You must escape through awareness.
-Ajahn Chah, "Still Forest Pool"
this couldn't have happened to a nicer band! well wishes! hallow weener
Just wanted to thank you for making the Sunflower Festival that much more enjoyable - your set at Cat Head was as truly amazing. Can't wait to see you guys in St. Louis (hopefully not Pops;)
