Known for transporting audiences back to the 1920s, jazz and blues-inspired multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Jerron ‘Blind Boy” Paxton makes his Kings Place debut as part of London Roots Festival.
Although still in his 20s, Jerron Paxton has earned a reputation for transporting audiences back to the 1920’s and making them wish they could stay there for good. Paxton may be one of the greatest multi-instrumentalists that you have not heard of. Yet. And time is getting short, fast.
This young musician sings and plays banjo, guitar, piano, fiddle, harmonica, Cajun accordion, and the bones (percussion). Paxton has an eerie ability to transform traditional jazz, blues, folk, and country into the here and now, and make it real. In addition, he mesmerizes audiences with his humor and storytelling. He’s a world-class talent and a uniquely colorful character that has been on the cover of Living Blues Magazine and the Village Voice, and has been interviewed on FOX News. Paxton’s 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—playing guitar, banjo, piano and violin, among other implements—to fully assimilate the blues idiom of the 1920s and ‘30s.”
https://www.facebook.com/JerronBlindBoyPaxton
Videos -
Interview and performance by Jerron with Blues Kitchen TV-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5syp0JAVunk&t=8s
Live at The Convent Club -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=41&v=379SNW5RV9A
Texas Traveller -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l25hzWCgsu0
Mississippi Bottom -