Sun 3/16 @ 8:30PM
Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band is another of those touring monsters honed by years spent on the road. The trio out of the unlikely location of Southern Indiana has been travelling tirelessly since the mid 2000s, playing its raw country blues. While there’s a witty streak in their music that could be taken tongue-in-cheek, there’s also a deep connection to and respect for the vernacular music they play.
The core of the band is guitarist/vocalist/songwriter “Reverend Peyton” and his washboard-playing wife Breezy, currently joined by drummer Ben Russell. With Peyton playing vintage ’30s guitars and a three-string cigar box guitar, and Breezy and Russell providing percussion on washboard and a small drum kit that includes a plastic bucket, they’re pursuing a niche genre of bands like Doo Rag and, most prominently Black Keys, that tap into a primitive lo-fi tradition but play the music mostly for hip indie rock audiences.
Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band will be at the Grog Shop, where they’ll joined by two significant musicians in bringing roots music to rock audiences: Dom Flemons, founder and former member of old-time string band Carolina Chocolate Drops and Dexter Romweber, who was half of the influential garage/rockabilly duo Flat Duo Jets.
Tickets are $16 in advance, $18 at the door.