REVEREND PEYTON'S BIG DAMN BAND
2010-10-29
Wien (AUT)
Porgy & Bess



Audience Recording
Sony ECM-719 --> Sony Hi-MD MZ-RH1 --> Sonic Stage
tracked and converted to flac (8) in CD Wave Editor





BAND:
Reverend Peyton: guitar, vocals
Breezy Peyton: washboard
Aaron Persinger: drums



The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band is a three-piece American country blues band from Brown County, Indiana.

History
Josh "The Reverend" Peyton was born April 12, 1981, Eagletown, Indiana. Original member and Rev's brother, Jayme, was born in 1983. Their father was a concrete man; he performed odd jobs during the winter months for extra money, from plowing snow and chopping wood, to fur trapping. Rev Peyton's first introduction to music was via his father's record collection of blues-oriented rock, including Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young and Bob Dylan. At age 12, Rev Peyton's father gave him a Kay brand guitar. Shortly after, younger brother Jayme Peyton started playing the drums and, with a bass player, formed a band called "Drive-Thru" and played parties. A friend pointed out the blues sound of Rev Peyton's guitar playing, sending Peyton off on an exploration of the blues of BB King, Muddy Waters and B.B. King's cousin Bukka White. Further exploration led to pre-World War II "country blues", and a desire to learn the finger-picking style of artists like Charlie Patton. At the time Peyton was unable to master it, instead playing more pick-oriented blues. Peyton played a party following his high school graduation, and the next morning suffered excruciating pain in his hands. Doctors told Peyton he'd never be able to hold his left hand in fretting position again. At that point, he gave up on music and spent a year working as the desk clerk in a hotel.

Eventually Peyton sought other medical advice, and the Indiana Hand Center operated on his left hand, and removed a mass of scar tissue. While recovering from surgery, Rev Peyton met (and later married) Breezy. She introduced him to the music of Jimbo Mathus and the Squirrel Nut Zippers, and he introduced her to delta blues. When the bandages were removed, Peyton discovered a new flexibility in his fretting hand that enabled him to play in the "finger" style that had long eluded him.

Breezy bought a washboard, and started writing songs with Rev Peyton and Jayme Peyton. A trip to Clarksdale, Mississippi inspired them to resume playing music, and their first gigs were at Melody Inn Tavern in Indianapolis, Indiana. The band played blues festivals, headlined two nights at actor Morgan Freeman's Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, and toured as the opening act for Mary Prankster.

Eventually, a 40-hour drive from Indiana to El Centro, California to open for the Derek Trucks Band and Susan Tedeschi convinced the band to devote themselves to music and touring full-time. They received an offer from a blues record label, but discovered that they had sold more copies of their independently pressed CD "The Pork'n'Beans Collection" at their concerts than the label had managed to sell of any of their other artists. Since that time, The Big Damn Band has been touring the United States, and a tour of blues festivals in Italy and Switzerland, pausing only for holidays and to record their CD "Big Damn Nation" with producers Paul Mahern and Jimbo Mathis. Their 2007 and 2008 tours included opening dates for the Celtic punk band Flogging Molly and progressive bluegrass band Hot Buttered Rum. In 2009, they toured opening for Clutch, an extensive headlining tour of Europe and played 12 dates on the 2009 Van's Warped Tour on the Kevin Says stage.

They are on the entire 2010 Van's Warped Tour on the Alternative Press stage and their song Clap Your Hands is on disc one of the 2010 Warped Tour compilation CD.

In June 2008, they signed with Los Angeles-based SideOneDummy Records. They released "The Whole Fam Damily" on August 5th, 2008 through the label, and it entered the Billboard Blues Chart at #4.

Jayme Peyton retired from the band in Dec 2009 and was replaced by his cousin, Aaron Persinger who joined the band on drums starting at their annual homecoming show in Indianapolis at the Vogue Theatre.

Their album, The Wages, was released on May 25, 2010 and entered the Billboard Blues Album chart at #2.

Peyton plays a rusty 1930 steel bodied National guitar, a 1934 wood bodied National Trojan Resonator guitar and a 1994 reproduction 1929 Gibson acoustic.

Rev Peyton is a Kentucky Colonel.




Setlist:

01 [Introduction]
02
03 Mama's Fried Potatoes
04 Sugar Creek
05
06
07 [banter]
08 Everything's Raising
09
10 [banter]
11
12
13 Sure Feels Like Rain
14
15 [banter]
16 Miss Sarah
17 [banter]
18 Your Cousin's On Cops
19
20
21 [banter]
22
23 [Encore Break]
24 Two Bottles Of Wine
25 [Encore Break 2]
26 Sugar Man



TRT: 01:29:15


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