Paxton Channels the Spirit of a Bygone Era…

– the Village Voice

Still in his 20s, Jerron  “Blind Boy” Paxton has earned a reputation for transporting audiences back to the 1920s and making them wish they could stay there for good.

Jerron performed to a sold out audience at the Lead Belly  Tribute at Carnegie Hall in 2016 along with other stars. In the two years since,  Paxton’s own star has been rising fast. He opened for Buddy Guy at B.B. Kings  in NYC; for Robert Cray at the Reading PA Blues Festival, and performed at festivals in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and all over the U.S. He is the Artistic Director of the Acoustic Blues Festival in Port Townsend, WA and appeared in the music documentary AMERICAN EPIC.

Paxton has an eerie ability to transform traditional jazz, blues, folk, and country into the here and now, and make it real. Mesmerizing audiences with his storytelling, he’s a uniquely colorful character. Paxton sings and plays banjo, guitar, piano, fiddle, harmonica, Cajun accordion, and the bones. His sound is influenced by the likes of Fats Waller and “Blind” Lemon Jefferson. According to Will Friedwald in the Wall Street Journal, Paxton is “virtually the only music-maker of his generation… to fully assimilate the blues idiom of the 1920s and ‘30s.”