{January 5th, 2014} Frank Fairfield & Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton

The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Information is very pleased to inaugurate its 2014 season with an evening of American folk music, blues, and rags performed by Frank Fairfield and Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton on banjo, fiddle, and guitar.

Frank Fairfield: “A young Californian who sings and plays as someone who’s crawled out of the Virginia mountains carrying familiar songs that in his hands sound forgotten: broken lines, a dissonant drone, the fiddle or the banjo all percussion, every rising moment louder than the one before it.”  — Greil Marcus

Jerron Paxton: "Jerron Paxton is truly the living embodiment of the true blues in the 21st Century, but he plays it all in the true songster tradition: ragtime, hokum, old-time, French reels, Appalachian mountain music and blues and more – and whatever he plays sounds great...his vast talent rivals the greatest in the genre. He is the whole package. He’s witty, fast rhyming, poetic, fun, exciting, wonderfully skilled as a musician and a fine singer, he is the continuation of a proud tradition, literally and figuratively." — The Country Blues