A vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Paxton's style draws from blues and jazz music before World War II and was influenced by Fats Waller and Blind Lemon Jefferson.
[6] In 2007, Paxton moved to upstate New York to attend Marist College[6][7] and soon after began playing gigs in and around the Brooklyn area.
[9] In 2014, he voiced and sang the lines of "The Highwayman", a character from the fourth episode of Over the Garden Wall, "Songs of the Dark Lantern".
[10] Paxton's talent and contributions to acoustic blues have earned him comparisons to contemporary artists such as Taj Mahal, Keb' Mo', and Corey Harris.
Since his childhood, he has added piano, harmonica, Cajun accordion, ukulele, guitar, and the bones to his musical arsenal, although the banjo was his first serious instrument.