This weekend on Ozark Highlands Radio, old time acoustic blues, jazz, & traditional music prodigy Jerron Blind Boy Paxton performs live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, interviews with Jerron. Mark Jones offers an archival recording of Ozark legend Bookmiller Shannon performing the song “The Banks of the Ohio.” Old time and Ozark fiddle aesthete Roy Pilgrim profiles traditional Ozark fiddler Absie Morrison. Stream the “Jerron 'Blind Boy' Paxton” show as well

Jerron 'Blind Boy' Paxton made a massive impact at EJBF18 with a run of sold out shows. If you missed out in 2018, you have four chances to catch him at this year's festival: https://bit.ly/3wXPnEv With his charismatic stage presence and impressive multi-instrumental talent, he carries the torch for traditional acoustic blues, mixing ragtime, hokum, old time, French reels, Appalachian mountain music and, of course, blues all in the true songster tradition. Check him out in this clip from 2018. |