heidicuda's Blog

Dateline: Friday, June 20, 2008.

Warped Tour, Pomona. Temperature: Fahrenheit 911. First Stop: Backstage parking.

Flashed my Fox press card and parked with the tour buses. First 15 minutes: Ran into Bill Armstrong, co-owner of SideOneDummy, the bad-arse record label that's home to Flogging Molly, et al.

Bill and I have always loved the same music (Red 5 rulez!) so he slipped me a hot disc by the Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, which is technically three people but large on spirit nevertheless (photo credit Todd Fox). 

The family-based act is made up of fingerstyle guitarist Reverend Peyton, his wife and washboard player Breezy Peyton, and drummer/brother Jayme Peyton. For three years, the country-blues aficionados from rural Indiana have played more than 250 shows annually and logged more miles on their van than most acts who have been around for a decade. They're so DIY they play with punk bands, roots acts, bluegrass, alt-country, rockabilly and managed to sell 30,000 records out of their dang van.  

Word to the wiz-ize. Reverend Peyton's performing Thursday at Safari Sam's in Hollyweird so check it out. More Warped Tour Diaries TK.... luv, hsc