PineCone & Town of Cary present Blues Concert featuring Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton

July 11, 2012 - PRLog -- Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton is a songster, busker, and itinerant bluesman. He is a master of multiple blues styles and picks like Blind Blake. He feels home in the Piedmont tradition with its ragtime influence. Country blues fans will pick up on influences like Blind Boy Fuller, and Gary Davis, but also on the elements swampy blues of Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta. He digs deep in the archives of the country blues, from Furry Lewis to Texas Alexander, and he has performed with Frank Fairfield, Dom Flemons, and more. PineCone is honored to bring this incredible young musician to Cary! Paxton will perform a free concert at the Sertoma Amphitheatre in Cary's Bond Park on Saturday, July 21. The music begins at 6 p.m., and the concert is free and open to the public.

PineCone regrets that Blind Boy Chocolate & The Milk Sheiks have had to cancel their scheduled performance in Cary - they officially disbanded as of July 9, 2012. We are honored to present Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton, who is currently living in and studying in NY.  Thank you for your patience and understanding, and we look forward to seeing you at Sertoma to hear this amzing young bluesman in a special NC appearance!

Paxton was born in 1989, and already his vast talent has garnered favorable comparisons with some of the greatest blues musicians, including John Hammond Jr.,Taj Mahal, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Corey Harris, and Keb’ Mo’. Paxton is a capable multi-instrumentalist who picks banjo and guitar, plays harmonica, piano, and other instruments. Banjo was the first instrument that he played seriously, beginning at the age of 14 (he started playing fiddle when he was 12, but he decided it wasn't quite the right fit for him.) He is witty, fast rhyming, poetic, fun, exciting, skilled as a musician and a fine singer. He is the son of Robert Johnson’s cousin, so you could say it’s "in the blood."

He hails from a Creole family in Watts, South Central Los Angeles, but his people come from Louisiana. Louisiana blues developed in the period after World War II. It is generally divided into two sub-genres: the jazz-influenced New Orleans blues based around the city, and the slower tempo swamp blues, which incorporated influences from zydeco and Cajun music from around Baton Rouge. Paxton currently lives in New York, where he is in school. Paxton plays a lot of old Cajun songs, old blues and hillbilly tunes, and old jazz numbers.

Paxton has been blind since he was 16 years old. He is yet unsigned and his biggest fame has been found through the Playing for Change Foundation video PFC2, which has catapulted him to international fame, just as it had done for slide guitarist Roberto Luti. He’s also a favorite son of the Weenie Campbell website of country blues fans, which was a sizable career boost. what is ahead for this remarkable musician who vividly and passionately recreates the original blues and is in many ways an uncanny songster.

He is often cited to have said that at the age of fifteen–about the time he started to go blind–that he just didn’t like anything written after 1934. He raised himself on 78s. He is a joyous entertainer, humorous with a dazzling wit, and a terrific storyteller who exudes an affable excitement.

Learn more about this and other upcoming concerts in and around Cary and Raleigh on PineCone's website: http://www.pinecone.org.