About The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band: Fresh off a 2021 tour with ZZ Top, the Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band are the greatest country-blues band in the world. They are led by Reverend Peyton, who most consider to be the premier finger picker playing today. He has earned a reputation as both a singularly compelling performer and a persuasive evangelist for the rootsy, country blues styles that captured his imagination early in life and inspired him and his band to make pilgrimages to Clarksdale, Mississippi to study under such blues masters as T-Model Ford, Robert Belfour and David “Honeyboy” Edwards. The new album from Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band was written by candlelight and then recorded using the best technology available . . . in the 1950s. But listeners won’t find another album as relevant, electrifying and timely as Dance Songs for Hard Times. Independently released in April 2021 via Thirty Tigers, Dance Songs for Hard Times conveys the hopes and fears of pandemic living, was produced by Grammy winner Vance Powell (Jack White, Chris Stapleton), and reached No. 1 on the Billboard, iTunes and SiriusXM Blues Charts. Rev. Peyton, the Big Damn Band’s vocalist and world-class fingerstyle guitarist, details bleak financial challenges on the songs “Ways and Means” and “Dirty Hustlin’.” He pines for in-person reunions with loved ones on “No Tellin’ When,” and he pleads for celestial relief on the album-closing “Come Down Angels.” Far from a depressing listen, Dance Songs lives up to its name by delivering action-packed riffs and rhythms across 11 songs. The country blues trio that won over crowds on more than one Warped Tour knows how to make an audience move. Of course, the greatest front-porch blues band in the world found itself sidelined from a relentless touring schedule because of the coronavirus pandemic. Peyton says he was surprised when his mind and soul unleashed a batch of new songs in March and April of 2020. “Despite the hardships of this moment in history, it created this music that I hope will maybe help some people through it,” Peyton says. “Because it helps me through it to play it.”

About Myron Elkins and The Dying Breed: Myron Elkins is a 20 year-old from a small town in Michigan, where friends are family and family are friends. Values matter where he's from. It's the kind of place where a handshake is your contract, and you're true to your family name. Where Grandpa taught you to play that guitar, and Grandma taught you how to not be late for supper. Where you still say your prayers and remove your hat when you’re supposed to. Simple. Honest. Along with his band, The Dying Breed, the music harkens back to the days of Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings. It isn’t contrived, it’s just a way of life for Myron Elkins and The Dying Breed. Elkins, whose forthcoming new album was produced by Dave Cobb and will be released soon via Cobb’s imprint on Elektra, is a talented guitar player who has toured with Rival Sons, Marcus King and Blackberry Smoke.

About The Hammer and The Hatchet: The Hammer & The Hatchet (aka John Bowyer & Jayme Hood) refined their musical artistry in the fabled hills of southern Indiana. They honed their skills and craft in the honest old-school tradition of doing the hard work with and for some of the most significant performers of the old/new music business. The hard work has been paying off. With hundreds of live performances in the last 7 years, and their long-awaited third all original album  “Road May Flood” released in 2020 - with a track featuring Reverend Peyton - these road seasoned troubadours are swiftly traveling beyond their deep Bluegrass/Folk/Americana roots, both musically and geographically, and into fresh territory where they have been defined as both “Authentic and honest” yet artistically “innovative and delightfully original”. With masterful musicianship and endlessly appealing vocals, these genuinely adept co-writers never cease to deliver a deep well of originally introspective and heartfelt songs, of both comedy and tragedy, that consistently brings music lovers of all ages and sensitivities to their growing audiences. Anyone who is paying attention knows these old-soul-porch-pickers are on the road to legendary success, and a growing legion of fans are coming along for the ride!