The Wages
Summary:
The Big Damn Band is very much a family affair, with the good reverend on finger-style resonator guitar and lead vocals, his wife “Washboard” Breezy Peyton on washboard and vocals, and distant cousin Aaron “Cuz” Persinger on drums and bucket. The band’s home base is deep in the hills of Southern Indiana’s Brown County, which boasts a population of 14,957. (Or 14,954 when the band’s out on the road playing close to 250 gigs a year, including appearances at the Austin City Limits festival and tours with Flogging Molly, Derek Trucks, and Clutch.)
Now, with the May 25 release of “The Wages,” the soulful, swinging country-blues trio proves they’re more than just a world class live band. Their second album for SideOneDummy Records, it was produced by Paul Mahern (Zero Boys, John Mellencamp) and recorded in the band’s Big Damn Tradition: live in the studio with no overdubs on honest-to-goodness analog tape. Appropriate to our times, “The Wages” is thematically rooted in the blues tradition of hard-bitten reality matched with enduring optimism.
Excerpt from www.bigdamnband.com
Staff Review:
I discovered this band when they opened for one of my other favorites, Flogging Molly. If you get a chance to see Reverend Peyton in concert you will witness the amazing electricity generated between the band and the crowd. An interesting fact about this band is they are made up of only three people, one of which plays the washboard! "The Wages" is another album showcasing their crazy-good musical abilities and talents of down-home storytelling.
-- by Emily H.