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CANNONSBURG Saturday was a red-letter day at Camp Landing Entertainment District. More accurately, it was a red-ribbon day.

CANNONSBURG Saturday was a red-letter day at Camp Landing Entertainment District. More accurately, it was a red-ribbon day.

While the coronavirus pandemic sidelined them from their relentless touring schedule, Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band did all they could over the past year to stay actively and at work. “At the end of this thing, I wanted to at least say we did everything we could do — we tried real hard to do everything right,” Reverend Peyton says. “So we did. With every restriction that was imposed, we worked hard to create inside those lines. If it meant making music videos where we...

How an old Silvertone 1484 became the foundation of this roots-guitar power players sound. Roots-guitar badass Rev. Peyton plays with the intensity of a charging bison. That ferocity comes from his fast, hyper-accurate picking hand blended with dexterous fretting, and it gets juiced by dirty crushed-velvet tones from a variety of evocative guitars: custom Nationals and a mother-of-pearl covered Daddy Mojo, an original 1954 Supro Dual Tone prototype, a Kay Speed Demon, and more. But the foundati...