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    Blind Boy Paxton

    Blind Boy Paxton

    Presented by Memphis Acoustic Music Association (MAMA) at Otherlands

    February 11, 2011

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    Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton is an American genius….. no kidding. He was raised in Watts, but his people come from North Louisiana, and it shows.
    He is all of twenty one, a large man with a huge talent and a gargantuan sense of humor. He's a dead ringer for Blind Blake, whose music he plays to a fare-thee-well, but if you put a derby on him and set him in front of a piano, Fats Waller lives again. Pass him a banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, and just about any other instrument you can think of and he’ll show you something you can’t live without. He decided at the age of fifteen-- about the time he started to go blind-- that he just didn't like anything written after 1934. So now he plays the piano twelve hours a day, and listens to 78s the rest of the time
    If you miss this show, you will kick yourself around the block for weeks. He is a genius. No kidding.


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        Otherlands

        641 S. Cooper
        Memphis, TN 38104

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        $12 $6 for students with ID

        Info Phone: 901 278-4994

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        February 11, 2011

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        8 pm

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