The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

Moes Alley presents The Reverend Peytons Big Damn Band with the Preacher Boy Trio!Thursday, June 13thDoors: 7pm / Show: 8pm$17 in advance / $22 day of the show21+THE REVEREND PEYTONS BIG DAMN BANDKindred spirits to Reverend Peyton are John Lee Hooker and RL Burnside. - The Washington Post Three time BMA nominees The Reverend Peytons Big Damn Band are the greatest front-porch blues band in the world. They are led by Reverend Peyton, who most consider to be the premier finger picker playing today. He has earned a reputation as both a singularly compelling performer and a persuasive evangelist for the rootsy, country blues styles that captured his imagination early in life and inspired him and his band to make pilgrimages to Clarksdale, Mississippi to study under such blues masters as T-Model Ford, Robert Belfour and David Honeyboy Edwards. Their latest record Dance Songs For Hard Times went #1 on the Billboard, iTunes and Sirius XM Blues Charts and was produced by Grammy winner Vance Powell (Jack White, Chris Stapleton). The record is critically acclaimed by Rolling Stone, Relix, Popmatters, Guitar World, American Songwriter, No Depression, Glide, Wide Open Country, Paste, American Blues Scene and many more!PREACHER BOY TRIOPreacher Boy mines the dark edges of Contemporary Blues and Americana with his signature raspy voice, virtuoso National slide guitar playing, and darkly poetic lyrics. From his genre-bending debut on Blind Pig Records to his latest album on Coast Road Recordshis 13th overallthis relentlessly pioneering artist continues to both honor and extend the country blues traditions that inspire him, while infusing his sound with influences ranging from punk rock to political folk. Preacher Boy helped create, define, and advance alternative blues as a genre that also spawned artists ranging from Chris Whitley and Alvin Youngblood Hart to the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and G. Love. Faster and Louder has called him the godfather of alt. blues. Of hIs boot-pounding live performances, Santa Cruzs Good Times had this to say: As he beats his long leather boot, four to the floor, his National steel guitar slides and spits a devious storm of gothic Americana and gritty country blues. Melody Maker described his sound as: Country blues that marry Nick Cave, Robert Johnson, Woody Guthrie and Tom Waits, and legendary music publication MOJO declared that, Preacher Boy is a songwriter of startling originality.