Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band – Poor Until Payday
Labels:Thirty Tigers
Number of Tracks:1
Total Time:00:03:53
From the Album:Poor Until Payday
Formats:Americana,Non-Commercial,NPR
Available Date & Time: Aug 14 2018 10:00:00 EDT
Impact Date: Aug 27 2018 00:00:00
Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band Impacting Now Watch the Guitar World video premiere From the new album Poor Until Payday
Available October 5
“Funk, folk and rock ‘n’ roll enter the mix, they remain a true barnstorming bunch — making vintage music with pure finesse.” – No Depression
"Kindred spirits to Reverend Peyton are John Lee Hooker and RL Burnside." – The Washington Post
Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band has built its reputation the long, slow, hard way. After 12 years of playing as many as 300 shows each year, Rev. Peyton, the world’s foremost country blues finger-style picker, along with the biggest little band in the country has pieced together one of the most dedicated followings out there. This following is sure to eat up the band's latest offering, Poor Until Payday, out October 5th, a country blues record that was made the right way — two feet on the ground and both hands getting dirty.
With all the power of a freight train, the Big Damn Band is known for its live shows. Rev. Peyton delivers guitar pyrotechnics the old fashioned way — ten fingers, a 6 string and an amp cranked at full tilt. In the country blues style, he plays the bass with his thumb, while picking the lead with his fingers at the same time. When he lifts the guitar behind his head to play there's nothing but skill and 16 gauge nickel strings to make the sounds coming out of the speakers.
Beside him on stage are just two other people. His wife, “Washboard” Breezy Peyton playing with all the nuance and percussive power of a New Orleans drum line, and keeping the train moving is Max Senteney on a lean drum kit including a 5 gallon maple syrup bucket. Together they play Peyton's wildman country blues that's as much ZZ Top as it is Bukka White.
On Poor Until Payday Peyton wanted a sound as live and electric as the records made in the heyday of 45 rpm blues classics from Chess, Stax and Sun Records. Playing his beloved custom-made National steel resonator, a 1949 Harmony Archtop, a 1954 Supro Dual Tone and a 1955 Kay Speed Demon through a 1949 Supro amp, Rev wanted to restore the “warmth, pops and hisses” mostly eliminated by modern-day compression. The band played in a room together with minimal micing (using only the best classic pieces they could get) with the main effect being tape saturation.
That's it.
The result is an album that is direct, soulful and demands to be played loud.
Tour Dates: 9/15-16 – Nashville, TN – AmericanaFest 9/22 – Indianapolis, IN – Holler On The Hill 9/26 – Altoona, PA – McGarvey's 9/27 – Columbia, MD – The Soundry 9/28 – Washington, DC – The Hamilton Live 9/29 – Charleston, WV – OktoberWest Festival 10/5 – Kansas City, MO – Knuckleheads 10/6 – Newton, KS – Blues, Brews & BBQ 10/10 – Fort Worth, TX – Fort Worth Live 10/12 – New Orleans, LA – House of Blues 10/13 – Houston, TX – The Mucky Duck 10/14 – Dallas, TX – Gas Monkey Grill 10/15 – Austin, TX – Antone's 10/18 – Albuquerque, New Mexico – Launch Pad 10/19 – Flagstaff, AZ – Orpheum Theatre 10/20 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom 10/21 – Tucson, AZ – The Hotel Congress 10/24 – Morro Bay, CA – The Siren 10/25 – Long Beach, CA – Alex's Bar 10/26 – Bakersfield, CA – World Records 10/27 – San Diego, CA – Soda Bar 10/28 – San Diego, CA – Nov 4 Legendary Rhythm Cruise 11/6 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge 11/8 – Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater 11/10 – Omaha, NE – Reverb Room 11/13 – Lexington KY – Cosmic Charlies 11/14 – Louisville, KY – Zanzabar 11/15 – Nashville, TN – Exit-In 11/16 – Winston-Salem, NC -The Ramkat 11/17 – Asheville, NC – Asheville Music Hall 11/18 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade 11/23 – Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue 11/24 – Newport, KY – Southgate House 11/29 – Kent, OH – Kent Stage 12/4 – Stanhope, NJ – Stanhope House 12/6 – Somerville, MA – Thunder Road 12/7 – Bridgeport, CT – Bijou Theatre 12/8 – Baltimore, MD – Ottobar 12/9 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge 12/28 – Chicago, IL – Martyrs 12/29 – St. Louis, MO – Blueberry Hill 12/31 – Bloomington, IN – The Bluebird
www.bigdamnband.com
Contacts:
Lindsay Reid
Roze Braunstein |
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