August 20, 2024

Jerron Paxton: Things Done Changed

Smithsonian Folkways - SFW CD 40265

Format: CD, Compilation
Country: United States
Released: October 18, 2024
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Blues, & Folk
[Tracklist]
01 Things Done Changed (05:15)
02 Baby Days Blues (03:16)
03 It's All Over Now (02:48)
04 Little Zydeco (02:40)
05 So Much Weed (04:07)
06 What's Gonna Become of Me (03:49)
07 Mississippi Bottom (03:54)
08 Out in This World (04:32)
09 All and All Blues (02:36)
10 Brown Bear Blues (04:05)
11 Oxtail Blues (03:09)
12 Tombstone Disposition (03:43)
[Credits]
Jerron Paxton (guitar/banjo/bones/harmonica/piano/vocals)
Producer & Mixing Engineer: Alex Hal, Liner Notes: Carla Borden, Engineer: Tony Gillis
[Notes]
Growing up in Los Angeles, Jerron Paxton would sit with an ear by the radio, eagerly absorbing the nuances and history of Black American traditional music that connect him to his ancestral roots in the South. A songwriter, inheritor of tradition, and a walking, talking jukebox, Paxton approaches his craft with equal part wit and reverence, with a knack for leg-pulling and cracking wise. Things Done Changed is an album of original songs that sound beamed in from nearly a century ago, when jazz and blues were performed as a means of both personal and cultural survival. Lick by lick, Paxton builds a bridge between generations gone and generations to come, singing the heartaches and joys of the past and present.

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