Announcing Things Done Changed, the sharp-witted new album by acclaimed blues singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jerron Paxton. Things Done Changed is available for pre-order now, and will be released digitally and on CD and LP on October 18th. Things Done Changed is available for pre-order here.

Once described as “virtually the only music-maker of his generation—playing guitar, banjo, piano, and violin, among other implements—to fully assimilate the blues idiom of the 1920s and '30s” by the Wall Street Journal, the thirty-five-year-old’s latest collection is his first of all original songs. On Things Done Changed, Paxton preserves and revitalizes historical sounds, using his deeply personal and sharp-witted storytelling to reflect the ongoing experiences of Black people in America. As Hugo Award finalist and former LA Times staff writer Lynell George puts it in the liner notes: “Etched within Jerron Paxton’s voice you can hear the wind, feel the hot prickle of the high-noon sun, smell the exhaust from an automobile on its last-gasp miles. It’s all there … [in his songs] you’ll discover context and background: the history of people and place and the come-what-may gamble of life-altering journeys.” In Jerron’s own words, “I write and sing about the culture I come from. It seems a bit neglected.”

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.