THE REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND, Sometimes called "the best porch blues band in the world", is led by Reverend Peyton, considered today the main exponent of fingerpicking. Rev has earned a reputation as a uniquely captivating performer and a passionate evangelist of the country-blues and roots styles that sparked his imagination at a young age and inspired the band to make pilgrimages to Clarksdale, Mississippi, to study with blues masters like T-Model Ford, Robert Belfour y David Honeyboy Edwards.
Accompanied by Rev's wife, the virtuoso of washboard Washboard Breezy Peyton, and sustained by the deep rhythms of Jacob "The Snakob" Powell, Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band will make you clap, tap and sing at every craft show around the world.
Your new album, Honeysuckle, was produced and recorded by Reverend Peyton and mixed by six-time Grammy Award winner Vance Powell (Chris Stapleton, Jack White). The album features many special guests, including gospel group The McCrary Sisters on the song “Manger”; to Blues Hall of Famer and Grammy nominee Billy Branch, who participates in Blind Lemon Jefferson's song “Nell (Prison Cell Blues)”; Grammy winner and ten-time IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year Michael Cleveland in “Freeborn Man”; y a Colton Crawford de The Dead South, who plays the banjo in “The Good Die Young”.
They have acted in 38 countries and 48 states. They have appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine, Living Blues y Elmore, have been the cover of Vintage Guitar Magazine, have achieved the position #1 on Billboard blues charts, iTunes y Sirius XM, and have been nominated for three Blues Music Awards for the Blues Foundation not Memphis. The Indianapolis Star included Reverend Peyton among the 25 greatest Hoosier musicians of all time.
