The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

While they're only a trio, the Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band deliver a sound that lives up to their name, with thick, bass-heavy, blues-based guitar and growling vocals accompanied by muscular drumming and the metallic percussive scratch of a washboard (making them one of the first rock bands to regularly feature the latter instrument since Black Oak Arkansas). Their style is informed by rural blues, honky-tonk country, and the rebellious spirit of rock & roll and 2010's The Wages typified the trio's rowdy style. Later albums saw them trying out different approaches: 2021's Dance Songs for Hard Times was a raucous set of songs that emerged from a variety of personal crises and 2025's Honeysuckle caught them in stripped-down and elemental form.