Old Dog Blues: Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton at The Ark

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  • Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
  • Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton performing "Old Dog Blues" at The Ark in Ann Arbor. This concert was hosted by the River Raisin Ragtime Revue and presented Saturday, August 11, 2018. Video by Dave Schall.

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  • @bobbydylanio
    @bobbydylanio 5 месяцев назад +16

    I named my beautiful black Labrador after this very performance. Sadly my beautiful boy died at the age of 1. This song is very special to me. Please never remove it from RUclips.

  • @kennethw.6603
    @kennethw.6603 Год назад +40

    His banjo technique is amazing. He is doing so many things at once that it boggles my mind. I don't know if I've ever seen his equal.

    • @themanhimself1229
      @themanhimself1229 11 месяцев назад +2

      He's simultaneously using like three different standard techniques and smashing them together. I'm genuinely in awe as to how well he's able to do it.

    • @extremenature9190
      @extremenature9190 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@themanhimself1229what are the techniques? -asking for a friend lol

    • @Mourningbeers
      @Mourningbeers 7 месяцев назад

      I'd say he's pretty incredible at making the drop thumb seem so effortless and he throws in those long brushstrokes while keeping perfect time. Not to mention he's playing a fretless banjo while singing. Really just a master of putting it all together if ya know what I mean@@extremenature9190

    • @Greencheez-y
      @Greencheez-y 6 месяцев назад +2

      I know right?! It's honestly amazing. Anyone who's played the banjo would know that what he's doing is no small feat by any measure. It's like he's unlocked the true potential of folk banjo. Dude's a legend!

    • @Greencheez-y
      @Greencheez-y 6 месяцев назад +11

      ​@@extremenature9190haha well you can let your *friend* know that the main technique he's using is a folk style that goes by many names called clawhammer/frailing/overhand style. But he is also using a technique within that style with his strumming hand called drop-thumbing as well as a lot of pull-offs and trills with his fretting hand. In another video I just saw before this one, he was also doing a 3-finger folk style towards the end of the song.
      Hope this helps!

  • @alanaltimont9007
    @alanaltimont9007 2 года назад +17

    A national treasure--if we treasured truly important things. I suppose this history is no longer welcome in public schools.

    • @frostyfrances4700
      @frostyfrances4700 11 месяцев назад

      They're not only burning books - very recently a teacher was fired for assigning the Diary of Anne Frank.

    • @user-io6gi7gv8t
      @user-io6gi7gv8t 3 месяца назад +1

      Прекрасно вас понимаю!
      Как рождённый в СССР, я завидую вашему народу - линия народной музыки в вашей стране не прерывалась, а только погрузилась под слой поп- и рок-музыки.
      В СССР, вы не поверите, народную музыку погубила система музыкального образования! 🤔 Были созданы отделения народной музыки в каждой школе и консерватории. И там проделали такую обработку как репертуара, так и народной манеры исполнения - точнее, создали новую, на основе академической музыки - что мы, русские люди, вообще не знали, как должно звучать народное пение!
      Слава богу, что оно сохранилось в этнографических записях, и в некоторых народных коллективах.
      Только в начале 2000-х годов началось очень медленное возрождение истинной русской традиционной музыки! Сейчас появилось достаточное количество исполнителей аутентичной музыки в настоящей народной манере. К сожалению, в массы эта музыка проникает очень слабо, слушают только энтузиасты фольклора.
      А большинство людей старшего возраста до сих пор считают "народным" пение выпускников консерваторий, которые выдают настоящую карикатуру на фольклор.

    • @otter726
      @otter726 3 месяца назад

      ​@@user-io6gi7gv8t
      Привет! Я заядлый поклонник народной музыки, а также очарован русским языком и культурой. Есть ли у вас какие-либо рекомендации, что вы могли бы считать русским традиционным фолком? Современный или старый - это хорошо. заранее спасибо (Google Переводчик)

  • @craigmitchell8892
    @craigmitchell8892 3 месяца назад +3

    I cant watch this without crying, so much power in his player that i havent really heard anywhere else

    • @mack8488
      @mack8488 2 месяца назад

      Its not just art but also history....getting misty eyed too...😢

  • @chezztone
    @chezztone 3 года назад +15

    Thank you for that long spoken introduction. Yes, this is not just a sentimental song about a deceased pet!

  • @lyndonlondon
    @lyndonlondon 4 года назад +17

    Amazing player with amazing voice. He feels what he sings...

  • @Taptricko
    @Taptricko 21 день назад

    I was in the woods 100+ years ago running with Blue .. . transcendent.

  • @israelorr5755
    @israelorr5755 4 года назад +12

    This man has the soul i wish i had.

    • @chezztone
      @chezztone 3 года назад +5

      You might have the soul! But you still have to work hard at your music, as he has and does, if you want to bring it out.

  • @TheWolfy90
    @TheWolfy90 5 лет назад +21

    He is such an amazing guy and his music is just breathtaking!

  • @rjwh67220
    @rjwh67220 11 месяцев назад +2

    One of my favorite songs, and damn but this man can play it like nobody else.

  • @user-py4mo4sm1n
    @user-py4mo4sm1n 3 месяца назад +1

    Moved me to tears…

  • @user-qt5eh9wb7g
    @user-qt5eh9wb7g 4 года назад +4

    I love the dude over his right shoulder just absolutely diggin it. Cool.

  • @jeremybudd4985
    @jeremybudd4985 3 месяца назад +1

    The goat of goats. Makes me simultaneously want to learn banjo and never touch the fucking thing for fear of blasphemy. He’s one in a billion, a true wizard.

  • @jacobalexander7192
    @jacobalexander7192 Год назад +2

    So incredible. Deserves way more attention

  • @mack8488
    @mack8488 2 месяца назад

    My dinner is fighting me....😂

  • @georgebethos7890
    @georgebethos7890 3 года назад +3

    This guy is great 👍

  • @creativemusicmakingworksho2128
    @creativemusicmakingworksho2128 11 месяцев назад

    What a beautiful outstanding song.

  • @jameshayes9932
    @jameshayes9932 5 месяцев назад +1

    National treasure

  • @sarahcohen3844
    @sarahcohen3844 18 дней назад

    I knew a Joan Baez version of this song as a kid. This has so much more to it.

  • @Buckmelanoma1
    @Buckmelanoma1 11 месяцев назад +1

    Mesmerizing

  • @1crimson7
    @1crimson7 7 месяцев назад +1

    I have a dog. His name is Blue - and yes, he’s a good’un too. 🐻‍❄️💕

  • @nikolairuskin
    @nikolairuskin Год назад

    That was so awesome!!!!!!!!!

  • @RicdelaBastide
    @RicdelaBastide 4 года назад +2

    Respect

  • @jamesezell3068
    @jamesezell3068 3 месяца назад

    Chockma long decindent of last Chickasaw daws... Oklahoma born Louisiana raised

  • @mattWallJsy
    @mattWallJsy Год назад

    Perfection 👌🏽

  • @whelennut
    @whelennut Год назад +3

    The first blind banjo player I have ever heard.

  • @roseneal2392
    @roseneal2392 2 года назад +1

    Hellava relationship👑

  • @joannehack7588
    @joannehack7588 6 месяцев назад +1

  • @StanfordFan-jn1dp
    @StanfordFan-jn1dp Год назад

    wow! wow! wow!

  • @emarkjacobs
    @emarkjacobs Год назад

    maestro!

  • @hustlinc3540
    @hustlinc3540 Год назад

    the best alive

  • @Buckmelanoma1
    @Buckmelanoma1 11 месяцев назад +2

    Anyone else start clapping at the end?

  • @hoother9573
    @hoother9573 4 года назад +7

    profound. somehow he breaks through to the other side.

  • @ELI-zi1kl
    @ELI-zi1kl Год назад

    He's almost there he won't tell the entire truth of what happened back in the day he has the music but it's something else and history is hard the truth is a mf that's why people run from the most hated people that graced hell told the truth that's what was their crime

  • @randolphfriend8260
    @randolphfriend8260 Месяц назад

    💙 🎶 🪕 🎶

  • @blackpalacemusic
    @blackpalacemusic Месяц назад

    His grandmother's father used to hunt squirrels and rabbits with a blow gun 😮 on a plantation 🤯

  • @Chill_Die_Ding_Prod
    @Chill_Die_Ding_Prod 9 месяцев назад

    An add in the middle of the song? Unsub

    • @BoarhideGaming
      @BoarhideGaming 8 месяцев назад +4

      The uploader does not control where youtube puts the ads, those times are long gone.

  • @richardcarew4708
    @richardcarew4708 3 года назад

    so, share cropping is the very worst form of slavery... when everything we need to live belongs to someone else... think about this a moment, please... look around... hmmmmm?

    • @richardcarew4708
      @richardcarew4708 3 года назад

      and.. there's no place to run, no place to hide... they got all of us brothers and sisters.. every single person on Planet Earth... it's done with paper money

    • @richardcarew4708
      @richardcarew4708 3 года назад +1

      and the restrictions of 10 bazillion laws and rules and regulations.. that keep us buying every single thing we need to live from someone else...
      what if... we could keep the fruits of our labors?... think about this please 🙏
      the StarFire Family wishes you Peace and Prosperity ad Infinitum 🙏
      Peace 🙏✌☮🕊

    • @richardcarew4708
      @richardcarew4708 3 года назад

      thanks Mr Paxton... 😊 always a pleasure, sir 🙏Namaste ✌

    • @richardcarew4708
      @richardcarew4708 3 года назад

      at the end of Men in Black, the kids with the galaxy marbles... let's shake em up... see if they fight... and they do brothers and sisters, they do... that's where all the money goes

    • @richardcarew4708
      @richardcarew4708 3 года назад

      solution ==>> it costs absolutely nothing to be nice

  • @silverback1243
    @silverback1243 4 года назад

    He's not even blind.🤣

    • @JohnyG29
      @JohnyG29 3 года назад +6

      There are many levels of blindness. Only a small percentage of technically blind people have zero vision.

    • @jasonw4053
      @jasonw4053 2 года назад +10

      He is legally blind. He can't drive. As he says "Legally Blind Boy Paxton" doesn't sound as good.

    • @dankealey6176
      @dankealey6176 2 года назад +3

      @@jasonw4053 Just ignore them, pedantic trolls.

    • @jameshayes9932
      @jameshayes9932 5 месяцев назад

      Funny...from a dude named silverback

  • @claytonwalter8700
    @claytonwalter8700 4 года назад +1

    So phony I could puke.

    • @h2bfz098
      @h2bfz098 4 года назад +7

      Funny no body asked you... but everyone has an opinion just like everyone has an ashole.... and hole is mighty large

    • @jacoblambert1586
      @jacoblambert1586 2 года назад +19

      Go ahead, maybe you’ll feel better.