Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band is Making a Scene

April 7, 2025

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Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Reverend Peyton of Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band

The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band has delivered energetic performances in 38 countries and 48 states, earning widespread recognition in prestigious publications such as Rolling Stone, Living Blues, and Elmore. They’ve graced the cover of Vintage Guitar Magazine, topped Billboard’s Blues Charts multiple times, and garnered three nominations from the Blues Foundation’s esteemed Blues Music Awards in Memphis. Reverend Peyton himself was honored by The Indianapolis Star as one of the “Top 25 Hoosier Musicians of All Time.”

Perhaps you discovered the band through Reverend Peyton’s extraordinary guitar skills or their vibrant, revival-style live performances. While the reasons fans initially discover the band may vary, the reason they stay is singular: heart. This is authentic music made passionately by people who genuinely love what they do. As The Sacramento Bee aptly put it, “It’s a group with boundless stockpiles of heart to spare—it cascades through every slip-n-slide vintage blues and soul number they play, resonating through every performance and lingering long afterward. The front porch becomes the church, the church transforms into the dance hall, and the dance hall leads down to the riverbank. Your knees might give out before you fully grasp the magic.”

Often hailed as “the greatest front-porch blues band in the world,” Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band is fronted by Reverend Peyton, renowned today as one of the premier fingerpick guitarists. Revered not only for his captivating performances but also as a passionate ambassador for roots and country blues, Reverend Peyton was deeply influenced by blues legends such as T-Model Ford, Robert Belfour, and David “Honeyboy” Edwards, whom he studied under in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Alongside his wife, the remarkable washboard player Washboard Breezy Peyton, and drummer Jacob “The Snakob” Powell, the band delivers electrifying performances that will have audiences clapping, stomping, and singing along worldwide.

Their most recent album, Dance Songs For Hard Times, achieved #1 positions on Billboard, iTunes, and Sirius XM Blues Charts. Produced by Grammy winner Vance Powell (known for his work with Jack White and Chris Stapleton), the album has received critical acclaim from major outlets such as Rolling Stone, Relix, PopMatters, Guitar World, American Songwriter, No Depression, Glide, Wide Open Country, Paste, and American Blues Scene.

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