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 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
The Agency Group
Kalle Metz
kallemetz@theagencygroup.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)
Fantastic show at the Lager Haouse in Detroit. (even with the car break-in). Can't wait to see you all again. Like Mojo Nixon fronting Gid Tanners Skillet Lickers ! I am a true believer in the Rev.
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just wanted to say thanks for coming out to pittsburgh and putting on a damn good show even though there wasn't a huge crowd or anything.. it's nice to see true honest performers that are truly nice people and play good music about real life. i had a blast opening up the show for you and everyone i talked to whether they were into your style of music or not could not deny your entertaining show being a good time. anytime you need anything in pennsylvania again get at me and i'd be happy to help you guys out. you should definitely try coming to central pa sometime up in the state college area i think you could draw an even better crowd there.. i've got a few contacts if you're interested.. peace and love and best of luck on the rest of the tour/recording the new material..
The Jim Jones Revue play a special XFM 14+ show at The Barfly in Camden this Monday. The show will be recorded and broadcast on John Kennedy's XFM Xposure radio show throughout November.
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