About the artist

If you are a fan of old blues, you simply have to check out Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton. The 36-year-old singer and multi-instrumentalist from Los Angeles takes his influences from blues and jazz from before World War II, citing Fats Waller and “Blind” Lemon Jefferson as his influences. Paxton began playing the fiddle at age 12 and picked up the banjo two years later. Losing his eyesight in his teens didn’t stop him from making music. He started performing at festivals throughout the U.S. and later played with and/or opened for Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and many more. Transforming traditional jazz, blues, folk, and country into the here and now, Paxton has a unique sound. Or, as The Wall Street Journal put it, he is “virtually the only music-maker of his generation – playing guitar, banjo, piano and violin, among other implements – to fully assimilate the blues idiom of the 1920s and ‘30s, the blues of Bessie Smith and Lonnie Johnson.” His latest album, Things Done Changed, was released in 2024.