Blind Boy Paxton

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Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton (born January 26, 1989) is an American musician from Los Angeles. A vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Paxton's style draws from blues and jazz music before World War II and was influenced by 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 — 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." Originally from the Watts district of Los Angeles, Paxton's grandparents moved from Louisiana to California in 1956. These Southern roots would have an influence on Paxton as a young boy. After spending time listening to his hometown blues radio station, as well as the old Cajun and country blues songs his grandmother used to sing, Paxton became interested in these early sounds, developing a breadth of knowledge pertaining to such music along the way. He began playing the fiddle when he was twelve, only to pick up the banjo two years later. He is Jewish. He graduated from Verbum Dei High School in 2007. As a teenager, he began to go blind, losing most of his eyesight by the age of 16. As a Verbum Dei student, he had a corporate work-study assignment at the Braille Institute of America Paxton's talent and contributions to acoustic blues have earned him comparisons to contemporary artists such as Taj Mahal, Keb' Mo', and Corey Harris.

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Dirtiest Little Darling / Railroad Bill

Recorded Music for Your Entertainment

Music from The American Epic Sessions (Deluxe)

Jalopy Records 7" Series: Jerron Paxton

Best of Street New Orleans Xmas

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Music from The American Epic Sessions (Deluxe) (Deluxe)

Over The Garden Wall

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Things Done Changed

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Over the Garden Wall OST

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Music from The American Epic Sessions

Pickathon Music Festival 2010

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Blind Boy Paxton - Live @ KEXP 8/4/2010][blues

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