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Jerron Paxton

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405 total appearances

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Fresh Air
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s

Well, I think when I got to the point where it didn't feel like a big mystery, you know, when I got to the point where I figured out I was actually doing it and it wasn't magic, you know, I didn't have to sell my soul to the devil or, you know, spend a... ridiculous amount of money on guitar lessons and buy books and things like that.

Fresh Air
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s

Well, I think when I got to the point where it didn't feel like a big mystery, you know, when I got to the point where I figured out I was actually doing it and it wasn't magic, you know, I didn't have to sell my soul to the devil or, you know, spend a... ridiculous amount of money on guitar lessons and buy books and things like that.

Fresh Air
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s

Well, I think when I got to the point where it didn't feel like a big mystery, you know, when I got to the point where I figured out I was actually doing it and it wasn't magic, you know, I didn't have to sell my soul to the devil or, you know, spend a... ridiculous amount of money on guitar lessons and buy books and things like that.

Fresh Air
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s

When I just sat down and made music for my family and they said, oh, you're starting to sound like that record you sound. Especially, you know, my mom really, she still loves my harmonica playing. And her best bit of encouragement she could give me with my harmonica playing is say, oh, you're sounding like Sonny Terry. You're sounding like little Sonny Terry in the house.

Fresh Air
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s

When I just sat down and made music for my family and they said, oh, you're starting to sound like that record you sound. Especially, you know, my mom really, she still loves my harmonica playing. And her best bit of encouragement she could give me with my harmonica playing is say, oh, you're sounding like Sonny Terry. You're sounding like little Sonny Terry in the house.

Fresh Air
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s

When I just sat down and made music for my family and they said, oh, you're starting to sound like that record you sound. Especially, you know, my mom really, she still loves my harmonica playing. And her best bit of encouragement she could give me with my harmonica playing is say, oh, you're sounding like Sonny Terry. You're sounding like little Sonny Terry in the house.

Fresh Air
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s

And, you know, when I figured out That it sounded good to other people just as it did to me, you know, I figured I'd have it. I'd go up to folks. I'd go up to my grandma and say, Granny, did it sound good? And, you know, she said, Oh, yeah, baby, that sounds good. And I say, No, really, dude, it sounds good because it sounds good to me, you know.

Fresh Air
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s

And, you know, when I figured out That it sounded good to other people just as it did to me, you know, I figured I'd have it. I'd go up to folks. I'd go up to my grandma and say, Granny, did it sound good? And, you know, she said, Oh, yeah, baby, that sounds good. And I say, No, really, dude, it sounds good because it sounds good to me, you know.

Fresh Air
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s

And, you know, when I figured out That it sounded good to other people just as it did to me, you know, I figured I'd have it. I'd go up to folks. I'd go up to my grandma and say, Granny, did it sound good? And, you know, she said, Oh, yeah, baby, that sounds good. And I say, No, really, dude, it sounds good because it sounds good to me, you know.

Fresh Air
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s

And what you learn is how to keep out of your own way. And you have to figure out what to stop doing just to allow the music to come out of you. And sometimes it's just as simple as that to get some good music out of yourself.

Fresh Air
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s

And what you learn is how to keep out of your own way. And you have to figure out what to stop doing just to allow the music to come out of you. And sometimes it's just as simple as that to get some good music out of yourself.

Fresh Air
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s

And what you learn is how to keep out of your own way. And you have to figure out what to stop doing just to allow the music to come out of you. And sometimes it's just as simple as that to get some good music out of yourself.

Fresh Air
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s

Oh, it was a lovely place, I'd say. I was, you know, we didn't have too much money, but I was surrounded by the one thing you couldn't get enough of, which was love, and had a big multi-generational family.

Fresh Air
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s

Oh, it was a lovely place, I'd say. I was, you know, we didn't have too much money, but I was surrounded by the one thing you couldn't get enough of, which was love, and had a big multi-generational family.

Fresh Air
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s

Oh, it was a lovely place, I'd say. I was, you know, we didn't have too much money, but I was surrounded by the one thing you couldn't get enough of, which was love, and had a big multi-generational family.

Fresh Air
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s

I was in the house with my mother and my grandmother, and for the first few years, it was my grandpa, my uncle, my aunt, so it was, with me, it was six of us in there, and my great-grandmother was across the street, and You know, three of her children were around and, you know, all the cousins would come over at least once a week to visit her.

Fresh Air
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s

I was in the house with my mother and my grandmother, and for the first few years, it was my grandpa, my uncle, my aunt, so it was, with me, it was six of us in there, and my great-grandmother was across the street, and You know, three of her children were around and, you know, all the cousins would come over at least once a week to visit her.

Fresh Air
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s

I was in the house with my mother and my grandmother, and for the first few years, it was my grandpa, my uncle, my aunt, so it was, with me, it was six of us in there, and my great-grandmother was across the street, and You know, three of her children were around and, you know, all the cousins would come over at least once a week to visit her.

Fresh Air
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s

And, you know, so I grew up around lots of lovely family and, you know, big backyard that 80 percent of the food I grew up eating came out of, you know. until me and Granny made our last little harvest the year she passed away. Yeah, it was a lovely place full of music and family.

Fresh Air
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s

And, you know, so I grew up around lots of lovely family and, you know, big backyard that 80 percent of the food I grew up eating came out of, you know. until me and Granny made our last little harvest the year she passed away. Yeah, it was a lovely place full of music and family.