Blues singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton embodies the dream of the authentic blues but also plays everything in the true songster tradition: ragtime, hokum, old-time, French reels and Appalachian mountain music.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Jerron Paxton’s music is imbued with the cultural heritage brought by the Great Migration. His family’s journey from Shreveport, Louisiana, to the Athens neighborhood of South LA in the 1950s laid the foundation for his appreciation of black culture in the American South.
Jerron started playing the violin when he was twelve years old, to pick up the banjo two years later. As a teenager, he began to lose his sight and lost most of it by the age of 16.
Now he has piano, harmonica, Cajun accordion, ukulele and guitar in his musical arsenal and his style is based on pre-World War II blues and jazz music.
35-year-old Paxton has been compared to blues legends such as Robert Johnson, Lead Belly and Mississippi John Hurt or contemporary artists such as Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ but his style is still distinctly his own.
Now this witty, poetic, sharp acoustic blues musician finally comes to jazz club Fasching.
