Bandicoot Promotions Presents

The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band

Roaring out of the Southern Indiana foothills comes Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band playing a brand of Americana and Blues that stands alone. This is delta blues and hillbilly fervor combined with musical acuity that’s sharp as razor wire.

Reverend Peyton plays a rusty 1930 steel bodied National guitar, a 1934 wood bodied National Trojan Resonator guitar and 1994 reproduction of a 1929 Gibson acoustic. He has recently added a 3 string cigar box guitar to his stage collection. Peyton uses no outboard gear other than a three input switch box between his guitars and the amplifier. He is a noted proponent of Fingerstyle guitar, playing the bass line of songs with his thumb while simultaneously playing the melody, the melody of a different song or a round.  “Washboard” Breezy Peyton plays the washboard using golf gloves, to which thimbles have been attached.  Her aggressive playing style results in the band selling fragments of broken and burnt washboard at the merchandise table at their concerts.  New member Ben “Bird Dog” Bussell  plays a small drum kit, augmented with a five gallon plastic bucket fitted with drum hardware. The band claims they are the only rock band with a bucket endorsement deal.

Their fifth album, “Between The Ditches” (on SideOneDummy Records) features a new level of craftmanship in both recording technique and songwriting.  The songwriting boasts an added maturity and runs the gamut in subject matters from barn burning to the evils of strip mining.