Scott Ainslie

Scott Ainslie came of age during the Civil Rights era and found himself with black elders in the heart of a black church at age 16. He has sought out senior musicians in the southern Old-Time tradition and in the Blues and Gospel traditions of the mid-South. Having elders on both sides of the color line in the south, Ainslie brings stories and music to bear on the powerful musical traditions that he inherited from them and in the music he makes. This channel aims to be a showcase for the power integrity, and joy of those traditions: their music and history.