Ryan's Gig Guide - August 2018

www.ryansgigguide.com rgg Aug 2018 7 this album.” The Rev’s fascination with coun- try blues began at the age of 12, when he started dipping into his father’s album collec- tion and his dad brought a beaten Kay guitar into the Peytons’ Indiana home. In addition to mirroring the guitar playing he heard on recordings of early blues artists like Robert Johnson and Patton (to whom the Rev. paid tribute with 2011’s solo acoustic Peyton on Patton), he also started assimilating more modern recordings from MuddyWaters’ Chess Records catalog and blues-rock play- ers like JohnnyWinter.Those recordings often featured multiple guitar players and overdubs, but Peyton blended all the six- string lines he heard into one fluid part. “That forced me to start thinking outside the box right from the start,” he notes. “When people hear our records and see us play live, I think they understand that what we’re singing about is real to us,” the Rev. says.“We believe in the stories we’re telling and in the way we play.And when we’re on stage or off, there’s nothing fake about us. We are what we do, and I’m proud of that.”  www.bigdamnband.com RGG have a pair of tickets to give away for this gig. Just send an email to the address below with 'BIGDAMNBAND' in the subject title to be in with a chance of winning: media@rggmag.com  WIN