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Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton

Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton 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.

The charismatic songster bluesman, reports that he hails from an African American Jewish familiy with mixed Creole/Choctaw Indian ancestry transplanted Louisiana sharecroppers who moved to South Central Los Angeles, but Jerron now lives in Queens. In other words, he is a true American.

He is a swiftly capable multi-instrumentalist who picks banjo and guitar, plays harmonica, piano and other instruments, including the fiddle, his first instrument. The virtuoso is a joyous entertainer, humorous with a smooth vernacular, dazzling with, a terrific storyteller, exuding an affable excitement.