The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

Tiny Television
(CD Release!)

Four Year Bender

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band actually isn't that big. It's kinda like your husky pal everyone calls "Tiny." The young, modest three-piece from Indianapolis makes up for its size deficiency with a high-energy sound steeped in classic Blues tradition. With just acoustic guitar, the occasional dobro, a minimal drum kit and the always reliable washboard, the trio concocts a rousing, hyper and authentic brand of Blues that sounds like what might come out of that secret meth lab nestled deep in the backwaters of the Mississippi delta.

In December of 2008, Tiny Television gathered in SF to record their first full-length album, tentatively titled “Mission Statement”, at indie cult favorite John Vanderslice's Tiny Telephone studio. (Yes, the name is a coincidence.) The recording culminated at midnight on New Year's Eve, 2009 – quite a way to kick off a year that has much in store for this versatile, energy-filled alt-country outfit with a Colorado soul and California dreams.
"Organic and deceptively simple, D'Antonio's songs are brilliant exaltations on the human condition and alas, on love. From the compositions to the textures and lyrics – there is an executed, inherent simplicity. This, however, is not to say that Tiny Television is prosaic. Instead, what D'Antonio has managed to accomplish, especially lyrically – are paralyzing meditations on the universals of pain, loss, love and redemption." - Syntax Magazine

Since it's inception in early 2002, Four Year Bender has been one of the most talked about bands in the Bay Area, garnering lavish praise from music fans and critics alike. They have played every major venue in San Francisco including The Fillmore, Great American Music Hall, and the heralded “Hardly Strictly Bluegrass” Festival in Golden Gate Park.
Local radio giant KFOG has lent full support by giving them regular spins, and featuring them in the 2004 “Local Scene CD”; promotion of which included a live performance on The KFOG Morning Show, and appearances on two “KFOG emerging artist” concerts.