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Jerron Paxton
BLIND BOY PAXTON
The blues that was played more than a century ago in the American South, before the Second World War, was in a primitive state, played and sung by unknown musicians in unusual places and fed by rudimentary instruments, aged guitars, rusty banjos, untuned pianos and worn-out harmonicas. On the porches of remote houses, in juke joints of dubious reputation, in the middle of a dusty road or in the festive barns of the Saturday night in the neighborhood. The recordings could not avoid noises and imperfections, the songs referred to real stories about suffering, alcohol, women and bad luck. About the devil and his influences. The Jug Bands, String Bands, Medecine Shows, Folk Songs and Work Songs. Gus Canon, Reverend Gary Davis, Jazz Gillum, Mississippi John Hurt, Blind Lemmon Jefferson, Leadbelly or Charley Patton left their mark on an era in which the blues were nothing more than a lament to drown out impotence. Musicologists have put into books and recovered sound documents from those years, from their protagonists, their lives and the influence they later had on modern post-war blues when it moved to the cities of the north. In 1989, a bluesman was born in Los Angeles who could have been born a hundred years earlier. Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton, blind since the age of sixteen, is a musical prodigy, playing six acoustic instruments flawlessly. In late 2000, he moved to New York City and began playing traditional, early blues music in public, writing his own songs with one foot in ragtime and the other in the 21st century. Paxton reinvents traditional jazz, country blues, folk blues, Cajun music and makes it all real, the banjo sounds modern, the fiddle sounds contemporary, and the songs are ahead of their time. Make no mistake, this ain't no old blues, these songs aren't time-sensitive.

"THINGS DONE CHANGED"
RENEWED TRADITION
SMITHSONIAN
FOLKWAYS
RECORDINGS
RELEASE DATE
OCTOBER 18, 2024
(USA)


Songwriter
Acoustic Guitar
Acoustic Slide Guitar
Banjo
Bones
Harmonica
Piano
Vocals
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Tracklist: 01 Things Done Changed 05:15 02 Baby Days Blues 03:16 03 It's All Over Now 02:48 04 Little Zydeco 02:40 05 So Much Weed 04:07 06 What's Gonna Become of Me 03:49 07 Mississippi Bottom 03:54 08 Out in This World 04:32 09 All and All Blues 02:36 10 Brown Bear Blues 04:05 11 Oxtail Blues 03:09 12 Tombstone Disposition 03:43

Banjo

Guitar

Harmonica

Fiddle

Piano

PREVIOUS RELEASES




2015 - Album
2021 - Album
2018 - EP
2012 - Single

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