The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band have released a new video for their song “Poor Until Payday,” the title track from their upcoming album. Guitar World notes that the video “features 300 volunteers, two closed roads in two different towns, one 1962 tow truck, one 1970 Cadillac Deville and a lot of fantastic slide playing.” Peyton commands a colorful street scene that brims with a riotous energy that rivals what he and his Big Damn Band can bring to the stage in any situation.
“The reason the whole record is named after the song is because it’s almost like a bigger thing,” The Reverend Peyton explains. “It’s not just about payday at the end of the week. It’s waiting on that real payday to come. So that’s what it is for me. And that’s what the song is kind of about, too.”
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band are known as one of the foremost country-blues bands, featuring steel guitar player the Reverend Peyton, washboard accompaniment by Washboard Breezy, Peyton’s wife of 15 years, who has played by his side since the band’s inception, and Max Senteney on a drum kit augmented with a five-gallon plastic bucket fitted with drum hardware.
They play more than 250 dates per year from bars to festivals. To date, they have released eight albums and one EP. Reverend Peyton has even featured in a pair of viral videos, one that features him playing (and shooting) a guitar made from a 12-gauge shotgun, the other in which he chops wood with one fashioned out of an axe.
A devotee of what he calls “front porch blues” since he was 12 years old, Peyton is a disciple of Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Furry Lewis, Bukka White Mississippi John Hurt, the late David “Honeyboy” Edwards, Robert Belfour and T-Model Ford.
The Band will release their new album Poor Until Payday on October 5th, via the band’s own Family Owned Records label through Nashville indie Thirty Tigers. The album is currently available for pre-order here.
Check out “Poor Until Payday” below.
Photo credit: Raymond Flotat
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