The Rev. Peyton - National Guitar/Flat Top Gibson, Lead Vocals
Washboard Breezy Peyton - Washboard, Vocals
Aaron "Cuz" Persinger - Drums, Vocals
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 is in STORES NOW. You can order your copy now! Just click this banner and order!
"Chock-full of pure energy, Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band is vintage blues with a shot of dance music on steroids thrown in for good measure. Put it this way: if the Reverend's playing and your feet aren't shuffling around you better check your pulse... That helps make The Whole Fam Damnily, a disc recorded in a church in Bloomington, Indiana, a mixture like nothing else, one that probably deserves its own category." -Terry Mullins, Jambase.com
"His playing style melded the delicate elements of Mississippi John Hurt's music, the vocal anguish and slash-and-burn acoustic slide styles of Charley Patton and Son House, the rebelliousness and everyman storytelling of folk icon Woody Guthrie, and a hint of Americana rock of the kind performed by Scarecrow era John Mellencamp, also an Indiana native. -Will Romano, BLUES REVUE MAGAZINE
"The album is soulful, entertaining, and heartfelt from start to finish. The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band and their new release, The Whole Fam Damily, come with my highest recommendation to anyone who is willing to give good music a chance." Andre Monney, Something Punk
"When I first received "The Whole Fam Damnily" in the mail and gave it a listen I knew this was a band that I had to find out more about. The Album was like nothing I had ever heard before. Sure, I had listened to Son House and Robert Johnson and some other blues relics. But I had never heard a newer artist come across as completely honest as the Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band. They sounded like they weren't trying; they were just playing for themselves." -Isaac Smith, AMP Magazine.
"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
EUROPEAN BOOKING
Piedmont Talent
Steve Hecht
steve@piedmonttalent.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
Press / Promotion
(Germany, Austria and Switzerland)
Cardiac Communication Ltd.
Mirko Glaeser, mirko@cc-ltd.net
Tel: 0049-251-52000-204
http://www.cc-ltd.net / ( http://www.sideonedummy.de )
Rev. Peytons Big Damn Band's Friend Space (Top 16)
Hola amigos, esperamos que todos estén bien, para Portal4 siempre será un placer escucharlos. Feliz Navidad, que el 2010 venga con mucha salud y un buen trozo de Paz. Un saludo cordial desde Tenerife Y UR...GUAY.
man i cant wait to see you guys at the blank club! i aint seen yall since you came to santa cruz with jason webley. hope all is well, keep doin your thing -joel
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We are proud to announce! Phenom (Producer/Singer &Songwriter) Black Suede will be releasing his self-titled debut album next year (2010)! We know you have great taste in music! Drop Through and let us know what you think about his latest song release titled "Revenue Stream." Your Opinion Means a lot to us...
Hey Rev. Peytons Big Damn Band - are you ready for the invasion of Hillgrass Bluebilly in Austin for 2010? Support your local "dirtyfoots" & support Hillgrass Bluebilly LIVE events.
We have some January events for you to attend:
Jake LaBotz & Ramsay Midwood team up as Hillgrass Bluebilly Presents: Earthy, Rugged, Gritty & Soulful on Saturday January 23rd @ Jovita's
and
Friday January 29th @ BEERLAND - Hillgrass Bluebilly Presents: Wille Heath Neal w/ the Boomswagglers
Also, our debut album on Hillgrass Bluebilly Records - HIRAM & HUDDIE, has been nominated for "BEST CONCEPT ALBUM" for the 2009 Independant Music Awards featuring Scott H. Biram, Possessed by Paul James, Wayne Hancock & other well-known artists we all love & enjoy.....
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