I had a FANTASTIC Labor Day weekend. One of the highlights was attending my first Rib America Festival downtown with Damon. We headed out early Monday afternoon to check out The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band. If you haven’t seen them, holy crap, do. You need to see, nay, experience them, at least once. People ask me about their sound, to which I usually just say, “Swampy. It’s swampy blues,” which may or may not be an actual style of blues. Per wikipedia: “The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band is a 3-piece American roots blues band, playing original music in the style of rural blues musicians of the 1920s and 1930s.” Regardless, just open their myspace page in a new tab and let it be the soundtrack to this entry….
Damon went to high school with Josh (Rev.) Peyton, and I had the pleasure of seeing them at a gig at Bloomington’s Bluebird last year sometime. Afterward, we piled into their tour van and went to White Castle (it’s a semi-annual thing - White Castle - for me.). They were the nicest people, and were fascinating to talk to.
Here are some of the shots I got from their show at RibFest –
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September 2nd, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Breezy and I worked together for about 5 years in college. She was a crazy mormon when i met her. Then she met Josh and denounced. I remember the first time she brought a tape in and said, “Josh and I are starting a band with his brother and some other dude.” I think his name was Jed actually. Anyway, it was rough at best, but man have they come a long way. My friend Chandler just finished their website where there’s a wonderful photo journal if anyone is interested.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 8:52 pm
oh my gosh. I saw them open for the Drive-By Truckers in Indy a couple years ago.. I remember walking through the door of the Vogue(I think) and being absolutely blown away by the Rev’s voice. holy cow. Sadly, I haven’t been able to see them since :(
Great shots though.
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September 4th, 2008 at 9:53 am
No way! I mean, she plays the fucking WASHBOARD. So fucking cool.
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September 4th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Thanks. Are you updating your other blogs now? I feel like I haven’t gotten a picture post from you in a while!
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September 4th, 2008 at 10:10 am
I had been updating the other journal (Norbard) more because a lot of the photos were family-related and such.
Right now it’s in a state of “lockdown” because of some weird facebook/myspace identity theft-type issues, which I’ll write about soon :)
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