Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band - Honeysuckle

Artiest/Band: Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band Album: Honeysuckle Release: 21 February 2025 Label: Family Owned Record/Amplified Distribution The new album, Honeysuckle, is a tribute to those roots. Reverend Peyton describes it as his most personal and acoustic project in years, recorded with vintage equipment to capture that nostalgic sound......

Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, often praised as “the best front-porch blues band in the world,” is led by Reverend Peyton himself, one of the best fingerstyle guitarists of our time. Together with his wife, the talented Washboard Breezy Peyton, and rhythm expert Jacob “The Snakob” Powell, the band stays true to the authentic blues tradition.

The new album, Honeysuckle, is a tribute to those roots. Reverend Peyton describes it as his most personal and acoustic project in years, recorded with vintage equipment to capture that nostalgic sound.

Production Notes

The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band-HoneysuckleProduced and recorded by Reverend PeytonMixed by Vance Powell and assisted by Michael Fahey at Sputnik Sound StudiosNashvilleMastered by Brian Lucey at Magic Garden Mastering Los Angeles

Reverend Peyton-Vocals, Fingerstyle Guitar, Fingerstyle Slide GuitarBreezy Peyton-Washboard, Stomps, Harmony VocalsJacob “The Snakob” Powell-Chains, Percussion, Harmony Vocals

SpecialGuests:The McCrary Sisters sing on the song “Manger”Billy Branch plays harmonica on song “Nell (Prison Cell Blues)”Michael Cleveland plays fiddle on "Freeborn Man"Colton Crawford from The Dead South plays banjo on "The Good Die Young"

Tracks:  Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band – Honeysuckle 1. Honeysuckle 2. If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day 3. Looking for a Manger 4. Like a Treasure 5. One Dime Blues 6. Nell (Prison Cell Blues) 7. Freeborn Man 8. I Can’t Sleep 9. Let Me Go 10. The Good Die Young 11. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning 12. Mama Do

Website:  bigdamnband.com

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BIO:The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band has performed in 38 countries and 48 states.They have been featured in Rolling Stone Magazine, Living Blues, Elmore, donnedthe cover of Vintage Guitar Magazine, have been #1 on the Billboard, iTunesandSirius XM Blues Charts and have been nominated for three Blues Music Awards bythe Blues Foundation in Memphis. The Indianapolis Star listed Reverend Peyton asone of the top 25 Hoosier musicians of all time.Maybe you found the band because of virtuosic guitar playing? Maybe you came forthe tent revival style live show? The reasons that brought you here could beextensive, but the reasons that keep bringing people back are HEART. Real, from theheart, music made by people who love music. The Sacramento Bee said, “It’s agroup with boundless stockpiles of heart to spare—it cascades throughout everyslip-n-slide vintage blues/soul ditty they tear through and croon in every show theyplay, and they always leave a little behind. The front porch is the church, the churchis the dance hall and the dance hall is the river bank—your knees will fail you by thetime you figure it all out.”Often called, "the greatest front-porch blues band in the world" the Big Damn Band isled by Reverend Peyton, who is considered to be the premier finger picker playingtoday. Rev has earned a reputation as both a singularly compelling performer and apersuasive evangelist for the rootsy, country blues styles that captured hisimagination early in life and inspired him andhis band to make pilgrimages toClarksdale, Mississippi to study under such blues masters as T-Model Ford, RobertBelfour and David “Honeyboy” Edwards. Accompanied by Rev’s wife, the washboardvirtuoso, Washboard Breezy Peyton, and kept on time by the deeprhythms of Jacob harmonica on song “Nell (Prison Cell Blues)”Michael Cleveland plays fiddle on "Freeborn Man"Colton Crawford from The Dead South plays banjo on "The Good Die Young"