Born in Los Angeles on January 26, 1989, Jerron Paxton grew up in the Watts neighborhood with his Louisiana-born parents. From an early age, he fell in love with the blues and Cajun music of his origins, and learned to play the fiddle, banjo, piano, accordion and harmonica. Around the age of sixteen, he began to lose his sight and decided to devote himself to music. He moved to New York in 2007 and performed in clubs and festivals, opening for The Dust Brothers. In 2012, Jeron Paxton recorded two discophile albums for the Analog Productions label, Direct-to-Disc: Volume 1 and Direct-to-Disc: Volume 2, before being appointed artistic director of the Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Workshop & Festival in Port Townsend, Washington, in 2014. He founded his own label, Blind Boy Records, under which the album Recorded Music for Your Entertainment (2015) was released. In 2018, he takes part in the series launched by Jalopy Records and records an EP of four acoustic tracks. The historic Smithsonian Folkways Records label then took him under its wing to record the album Things Done Changed (2024), which reached #4 in the blues charts.
