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-based guitar figures 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 latter instrument since Black Oak Arkansas). Their style is informed by rural blues, honky-tonk country, and the rebellious spirit of rock & roll, as Reverend Peyton's raw and wiry guitar figures add texture to their straightforward melodies. 2010's The Wages and 2012's Between the Ditches typified the trio's rowdy style, 2017's The Front Porch Sessions and 2025's Honeysuckle caught them in stripped-down and elemental form, and 2021's Dance Songs for Hard Times was a raucous set of songs that emerged from a variety of personal crises.