Jerron Paxton - "Things Done Changed" (Official Audio)

Listen to Jerron Paxton's "Things Done Changed," from his album of the same name. "This song represents the blues at face value and is based on lived experience," Paxton writes. With frank lyrical delivery and a guitar that unfolds a bent and coiled story, "Things Done Changed" is a blues of the highest order.

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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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