Lookout Sessions: The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band

While they’re only a trio, The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band deliver a sound that lives up to their name. With thick, bass-heavy blues and growling vocals accompanied by muscular but minimal drumming and the metallic percussive scratch of a washboard (making them one of the first rock bands to regularly feature the instrument since Black Oak Arkansas), their style is informed by rural blues, honky-tonk country, and the rebellious spirit of rock & roll. Reverend Peyton’s raw and wiry guitar figures add texture to straightforward melodies.