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TRACKLIST

1. Born Bred Corn Fed [0:03:14.47]
2. Redbuds [0:03:15.21]
3. Clap your hands [0:04:28.60]
4. Sure feels like rain [0:03:09.45]
5. Everythings raising [0:03:28.57]
6. What go around come around [0:03:35.22]
7. Sugar Creek [0:02:34.15]
8. In a holler over there [0:03:15.67]
9. train Song [0:03:57.36]
10. Lick creek Road [0:03:02.24]
11. Ft. Wayne Zoo [0:02:40.42]
12. Just getting by [0:02:52.55]
13. 2 bottles of Wine [0:02:44.66]
14. Miss Sarah [0:02:03.42]

Are you ready for punk-rock washboard? Reverend Peyton and his Big Damn Band believes that you are.

Peyton specializes in raucous - and frequently righteous - country-punk. He’s a moralist, a minimalist, a brawler and a proud son of the Indiana sticks. "The Wages," his third album with his cheekily named trio, is the fullest realization of the personal style he’s been developing over the past five years: an amalgam of jug band blues, frenetic Southern-rock, populist punk and good old-fashioned Appalachian protest folk.

On "The Wages," the Big Damn Band manages to wring varied performances from its deliberately restricted instrumental template - the Reverend’s frantic slide guitar and relentless barnyard shout, junkyard percussion from drummer Aaron Persinger and the aforementioned washboard by Breezy Peyton. (It sounds, if you’re wondering, not unlike the purring of an aggressive cat.) The band puts on the brakes from time to time, but this is a wild ride on a bumpy dirt road, complete with bales of hay flying from the back of the pickup.

While Peyton avoids playing instruments minted after the end of the Great Depression - his slide guitars were all manufactured in the ‘30s - his examination of the great American countryside is anything but anachronistic. He defends rural life with both fists swinging. Farmers are going broke, the kids are cooking up crystal meth in the holler over the hills and the singer’s brother swipes a chicken from the Fort Wayne zoo.

The poor bird dies, of course; stuffed in the hungry man’s pocket, it never has a chance. Peyton’s characters aren’t a happy lot: they’re scraping by, and wondering why people in power don’t seem to care about their problems. "We’ll probably fail," deadpans Peyton, "but we gotta try." It’s a testament to the Big Damn Band’s exuberance that it still manages to make "The Wages" feel like a hooting, shouting, stomping party.

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Reverend Peyton is his sense of decorum - as rural America goes into hock around him, he minds his manners, maintains his values and even finds time to upbraid the impolite. "You can’t help stupid, but you can help mean," he advises an acquaintance in "What Comes Around Goes Around." When you’re "Born Bred Corn Fed," he implies, you carry on tradition no matter the cost.

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SPOILER (EAC LOG)

The video for The Rev. Peytons Big Damn Bands new song Clap Your Hands was shot in one day in a barn in Indiana. All of the dancers, artists, freaks, weirdos, cowboys, kids, donkeys, bunko steerers, chickens, and regular folks, who are all Hoosiers, all volunteered their time and talent because they believed in the song and the band. The video was directed/produced by the acclaimed music video producer Kevin Custer (Lil Wayne, Soldja Boy, Flogging Molly) who remarked the day of the shoot, it would have cost a fortune to get all of these props back in NYC. To which The Rev. Peyton replied, These arent props they are just crap you find in a barn!