The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band will begin the European leg of their new tour on June 24 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The So Delicious world tour has played all over North America, Australia and Europe. With a reputation for their incendiary live shows, these dates are not to be missed.
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band bridges genres and eras with an intensity and effortlessness few contemporary artists possess. Their latest album So Delicious elevates the trio’s work to a new level. Produced by Rev. Peyton, So Delicious, offers the band’s most diverse collection of songs yet, buoyed by the Rev.’s supercharged six-string virtuosity — a unique style of fingerpicking inspired by his Delta blues heroes, but taken to new, original heights.
The fifth full-length original album by the group is their debut on Shanachie/Yazoo Records, a label known for the historic reissues of blues and other forms of old-time American music that are the bedrock inspiration for the Rev.’s sound and approach.
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band has always been strong on authenticity, blending blues, ragtime, folk, country and other traditional styles with the sleek modern energy of do-it-yourself, homespun, punk-fueled rock. The tunes are plucked from the Damn Band’s lives, their community or from the canonical songbook that fed the Rev. Peyton’s formative creative identity. It’s a mix that’s allowed the band to win fans from all corners of the Americana and rock worlds, and bring a new generation to blues and other roots music.
So Delicious is a perfect Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band album, with songs that speak from the heart and capture the trio — whose sound has been honed over 250 annual road dates during the last eight years — playing at their peak. That constant touring lead the band to be awarded “Best Band of the Warped Tour” and to the stages of famed festivals such as Austin City Limits, Glastonbury, Bonnaroo, WOMAD, Telluride, Cambridge Folk, All Good, King Biscuit, Juke Joint and DelFest, among many other prestigious gigs.
The band has received critical raves at home and internationally, and video play from CMT and MTV, while charting on both college and Americana radio and earning song placements in the hit Showtime series Shameless starring William H. Macy. So Delicious debuted at:
#1 on the iTunes Blues Chart
#3 on the Billboard Blues Album Chart
#3 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart
#5 on the Billboard Tastemaker Albums Chart
#22 on Billboard’s Independent Albums Chart
“I can’t wait to get out on the road and bring this record to the fans. We have made a record we are so proud of, but there is nothing that compares to the interaction and community of our live show,” Reverend Peyton says.
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
EUROPE 2016 / Summer Tour
WED JUNE 29 – Haarlem NL – Patronaat
FRI JULY 1 – Bristol, UK – Grillstock BBQ & Music Festival (pre-party)
SAT JULY 2 – Bristol, UK – Grillstock BBQ & Music Festival
SUN JULY 3 – Cardiff, UK – Moon Club
WED JULY 6 – Slane, IRE – Boyles of Slane
THR JULY 7 – Cork, IRE – Crane Lane Theatre
FRI JULY 8 – Kilkenny, IRE – Cleere’s Theatre
SAT JULY 9 – Dublin, IRE – Grand Social
SUN JULY 10 – Arranmore, IRE – Earagail Arts Festival
MON JULY 11 – Stranraer, UK – The Grapes
WED JULY 13 – Greenfield, UK – White Hart
THR JULY 14 – Leicester, UK – Grillstock Smokehouse
FRI JULY 15 – Upton, UK – The Upton Blues Festival
SAT JULY 16 – Larmer Tree Gardens, UK – Larmer Tree Festival
SUN JULY 17 – Torrington, UK – The Plough Arts Centre
TUE JULY 19 – Nottingham, UK – The Bodega
WED JULY 20 – Leeds, UK – Belgrave Music Hall
FRI JULY 22 – Edinburgh, UK – Edinburgh Jazz Festival
SAT JULY 23 – Edinburgh, UK – Edinburgh Jazz Festival
SUN JULY 24 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK – Summertyne Americana Festival
TUE JULY 26 – Bilston, UK – Robin 2
THR JULY 28 – Oxford, UK – The Bullingdon
FRI JULY 29 – Newbury, UK – Arlington Arts Centre
SAT JULY 30 – London, UK – Oslo
WED AUG 3 – Antwerp, BE – Camping Louisa
FRI AUG 5 – Innsbruck, AT – Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen
SAT AUG 6 – Vienna, AT – Chelsea Club
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