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The band name alone is misleading for two reasons.

Nicknamed Reverend Peyton during his brief stint in seminary courses, Josh Peyton was originally planning on becoming a minister because of the spiritual connection he felt after performing his music in front of people for the first time in church.

“I loved the music, fellowship and kitchen dinners,” Peyton says. “But now my life is like that everyday, it’s like Sunday. Community, song, and a new adventure everyday. Wouldn’t change anything.”

So he’s not actually a reverend. But some people also call him Kentucky Colonel so try take the name with a grain of salt.

“I collect nicknames like some people collect stamps,” he says.

As far as this big damn band goes, it’s Peyton playing fingerstyle on guitar, his wife Breezy on the washboard, and Ben Bussell on the drums.

“It’s just my sense of humor. I call everything ‘big damn’ whatever so I thought, well we have to be the big damn band,” Peyton says. “And I did my research; there’s only one big damn band, and we’re it.”

With fingerstyle playing, however, Peyton can play two different melodies on the guitar at the same time, a technique he became obsessed with as a young child fascinated by World War II country-blues artists like Charlie Patton. He uses the fingers on his right hand independently to play multiple parts of the arrangements that would generally be played by several band members. No need.

“Fingerstyle guitar is as much in your mind as it is your hands,” Peyton says. “You have to get your mind around it. It’s a mental game. It’s trying to get your mind to separate those things out.”

Forgive them for the two-fold deception. The Americana country-blues on latest album “Between the Ditches” that they are bringing to the Bottleneck stage on Nov. 22 is much more genuine.

“There’s so much crap you have wade through in terms of what you’re going to spend your entertainment dollars on,” Peyton says. “So much of it is just plastic and fake. If nothing else, what you’re going to see when you come to our show is real, from the heart music by people who love it and are good at it.”

Rev. Peyton will also show his down-to-earth side in a heartfelt song about his rather average old truck in “Big Blue Chevy ’72.”

“Modern country songs talk about their jacked up chevys. Or rockabilly dudes will write about their ’50s step sides all rotted out. I thought my rusty old ’72 needs a song.”

His truck may not old be enough to be as cool as some of those rockabilly greaser trucks, Peyton says. It’s not new enough to be as cool as the pickup trucks praised in top 40 country songs. But Peyton and Breezy enjoy riding around in it.

“And it still gets the job done.”