Sam Brigger
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Fresh Air · Best Of: Folk Musician Jerron Paxton / Lyricist Ira Gershwin's Legacy · 6 Dec 2024
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I am playing two different parts.
John, that was great. Thank you. That was our guest, John Paxton, playing the harmonica. Was that hard to figure out how to do?
Okay. Well, that couldn't be more cryptic if I'd asked it to be. Yeah, I watched a video of you playing and singing a song, Hesitation Blues.
No, no, no. But at one point you were singing and then you played the harmonica with your nostril at one point.
Well, thank you for doing that. Cheers. Jerron Paxton, I just want to thank you so much for coming in today to bring your instruments and playing some music for us. Thank you very much.
Jerron Paxton's new album is called Things Done Changed. Disney+, which already gave us the three-part Beatles documentary Get Back and the restored version of their Let It Be film, has another new Beatles documentary to present called Beatles 64. It covers a very short but significant period in the group's history. Our TV critic David Bianculli has this review.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
David Bianculli is professor of television studies at Rowan University. He's at work on a book about the visual artistry of the Beatles. He reviewed Beatles 64, now streaming on Disney+. Coming up, Terry talks with author Michael Owen about Ira Gershwin, the lyricist behind some of the most enduring songs in the great American popular songbook. We'll hear plenty of great Gershwin music.
I'm Sam Brigger, and this is Fresh Air Weekend. Our next guest, author Michael Owen, talks with Terry about the life and enduring lyrics of Ira Gershwin. His new book is called Ira Gershwin, A Life in Words. Here's Terry.
Michael Owen's new book is Ira Gershwin, A Life in Words. Fresh Air Weekend is produced today by Thea Chaloner. Fresh Air's executive producer is Danny Miller. Our technical director and engineer is Audrey Bentham. Our interviews and reviews are produced and edited by Phyllis Myers, Anne-Marie Baldonado, Lauren Krenzel, Teresa Madden, Monique Nazareth, Susan Ikundi, and Anna Bauman.
Our digital media producers are Molly C.V. Nesper and Sabrina Seward. For Terry Gross and Tanya Mosley, I'm Sam Bricker.
Prior to his new album, Jerron Paxton has been entertaining audiences with his take on music that's mostly 100 years old or older. Some of the music dates back to the Civil War. He plays folk music, blues, hot jazz, ragtime, and fiddle and banjo tunes, among others. He's released several albums, but this new album, Things Done Changed, is his first where all the tracks were written by him.
Songs that are deeply rooted to music of the 20s and 30s and older, but reflects Paxton's contemporary feelings and observations about things like love, lost and found, gentrification, and finding yourself far from home. Paxton was generous enough to bring some of the instruments he plays to the studio today. If he had brought all the instruments he plays, he would have had to rent a van.
Guitar, fiddle, piano, harmonica, banjo, and the bones is not even a complete list. Paxton, who is 35, grew up in Los Angeles near Watts and has called himself a throwback in a family of throwbacks. He now lives in New York. Let's hear the title track from the new album. This is Things Done Changed.
That's the song Things Done Changed from the new album by Jerron Paxson of the same name. Jerron Paxson, welcome so much to Fresh Air.
So, as I said, you've released a few albums before, but this is your first album of your own compositions. Have you been writing all along but just recently decided to release these songs?
So you wait for inspiration rather than sit down and say, today I have to write a song?
Can you talk about how you approach the guitar? Is there a particular guitar player that was very influential to how you play?
I was wondering if you could show us, perhaps with an instrumental, how you approach the blues. And the blues can be played lots of different ways. One of the ways that it's often played is like a simple three-chord song. But there's a lot going on in the way you play the blues. So could you demonstrate that? I know you brought a guitar with you.
And I heard when you were getting ready that this is quite an old guitar, huh?
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