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Been a Minute podcast from NPR. This is fresh air. I'm Terry Gross. Today we're going to hear

from a musician whose music is vibrant, exciting, and new, even if it sounds like it could

have been performed in the 1920s. His name is Geron Paxton, and he has a new album called

Things Done Changed. He brought some of his instruments to the studio when he spoke with fresh airs,

Sam Brigger. Here's Sam with more. Prior to his new album, Geron Paxton has been entertaining

audiences with his take on music that's mostly 100 years old or older.

Some of the music dates back to the Civil War.

He plays folk music, blues, hot jazz, ragtime, and fiddle and banjo tunes, among others.

He's released several albums, but this new album, Things Done Changed, is his first,

where all the tracks were written by him. Songs that are

deeply rooted to music of the 20s and 30s and older, but reflects Paxton's contemporary

feelings and observations about things like love, lost and found, gentrification, and finding

yourself far from home. Paxton was generous enough to bring some of the instruments he plays to the studio today.

If he had brought all the instruments he plays, he would have had to rent at a van.

Guitar, fiddle, piano, harmonica, banjo and the bones is not even a complete list.

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