Customer Reviews

The Wages

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With bluesy rock beats and genuine lyrics, The Wages should be the top of all the charts! The album tackles issues that are felt in the heartland: living on a fixed income, the crystal meth problem in small communities, rampant unemployment, and the unfair market prices many farmers face. But it is still hopeful, it is still uplifting, and it still comes off optimistic.

"Born Bred Corn Fed" will make anyone born or raised in rural Indiana either swell with love for the lifestyle they live or hurt with homesick for what they've left. "Clap Your Hands" is a celebration of just being different - and the video that accompanies is one of the most joyful, exciting music videos to date. "Miss Sara" would make the biggest tough guy in the room wonder who is cutting onions, and "Everything's Raising" should be the anthem for our shrinking middle class.

With Breezy on the washboard, Cuz Aaron on the drums, and Rev on gass (guitar + bass), harmonica, and vocals, Big Damn Band creates big music: Music that's larger than life, rich, and big in everyway you can imagine!

I saw this band a few nights ago. Get the album! SEE THEM LIVE if you can! They have so much talent and energy it will blow your mind.

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band is a band you can't help but like. They are awesome performers and so much fun. I've been a fan for years. For me, The Wages is absolutely a five star album and belongs in every music lover's library. The places they sing about on this album are all real places located in the beautiful hills of Brown County (IN). My personal favorite is "Fort Wayne Zoo". The video for "Clap Your Hands" is very creative and a must see. I love this band and love this album.

Without a doubt one of the greatest musical trios ever....right there with Cream and the "Ace of Spades" era Motorhead. An exceptional slab of middle class, middle America anthems, sung and played with a raucous, reckless abandon that would make any of the old blues guys proud.......if their music doesn't bring a smile to your face, you're one of those poor souls who actually believe the Grammy committee gets it right......

I can never get enough of Rev Payton's music. Yes it all has the same sound, but it's one of those perfect sounds, like the Ramones or RL Burnside. They really hit the spot. And if you can, see them live!

Another bust out great one by the Rev, Breezy and "Cuz" Persinger on drums. If this music doesn't touch you, put a toe tag on. Special mentions go out to "Sarah", a moving tribute to Sarah Moore, the late great owner and blues patron of Sarah's Kitchen in Clarksdale Mississippi. This is one of the most original powerful little big bands working in the country. Catch them live for a great time - but watch out for the fire from Breezy's washboard!

Somewhere between country and blues, but is yelling, pounding and banging really music? Did not care for it at all.

I bought this and played it a few times, but I'm not really into it nearly as much as I thought I would be. I mean, I don't know what you're looking for, but if you're jonesing for an oom-pah band with a big bass drum and insane rambling lyrics sung by a guy who sounds like a Looney Tunes cartoon character, here ya go. In fact, this music could soundtrack a Vaudeville movie where the countrified characters come right from central casting: flour-sack pants, rope belt, brogands, and Yosef hats with the front brim pushed sideways a la Smokey Stover. If you smoke husks out of a corn cob pipe and yell "tarnation!" when your truck backfires, then this might be the band for you. Otherwise, you might prefer these songs in smaller doses than an entire album.