The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band w/opener Jarrod Dickenson
Sat, Oct 26
|Ground Zero Blues Club Biloxi
"Kindred spirits to Reverend Peyton are John Lee Hooker and RL Burnside." - The Washington Post "Like the Rolling Stones in the 60's, Reverend Peyton is bringing young music fans back to the blues." - American Blues Scene
Time & Location
Oct 26, 2024, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Ground Zero Blues Club Biloxi, 814 Howard Ave, Biloxi, MS 39530, USA
About the event
It’s been called “the greatest front-porch blues band in the world” and Reverend Peyton of The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band is considered one of the greatest finger pickers around. The band’s live shows have attracted a following so huge that they perform more than 300 concerts a year. Their 2021 album, Dance Songs for Hard Times, earned a nomination for Best Blues Rock Artist at the Blues Music Awards. It wasn’t always like this. When Reverend Peyton was born in Brown County, Indiana, he said that his father had to sell his guitar because they needed the money. When he was 12, his father bought him a Kay guitar. In a 2019 interview with Long Wailer magazine, he explained how this event changed his life. “From that point on, I would say I felt like a fish out of water, and I got put back in the water when…