Deep Inside the Blues with Margo Cooper, Joe Ayers & Trent Ayers

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Publication Date

4-16-2024

Abstract

Photographer and author Margo Cooper will be joined in conversation by blues musicians Joe Ayers and his son Trent Ayers. Cooper had the privilege of interviewing both Ayers for her book Deep Inside the Blues. She describes Joe Ayers as kind, wise, and passionate about playing guitar. Trent Ayers grew up listening to a variety of blues music with his father—tapes of Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, Muddy Waters, R. L. Burnside, and Junior Kimbrough. The father-son duo recently worked on an album together called A Father Son Legacy. Joe and Trent Ayers will play music during this SouthTalk. Margo Cooper’s recently published book, Deep Inside the Blues, is a collection of thirty-four interviews with blues artists and more than 160 of her photographs. Many of the key blues players of the period have already passed, making their stories and Cooper’s photographs of them all the more poignant and valuable. Holly Harris will facilitate conversation between the Ayers and Margo Cooper. Harris comes from a musical family, going back 5 generations. She is a veteran Blues radio DJ/producer, and emcee in the Boston area. She currently hosts SPINNING THE BLUES, on WUMB, live on Thursday and Saturday nights, and hosts KING ST BLUES online, on TGRN BLUES. Holly is the percussionist with The One Dime Band, plays at Juke Joint Fest in Clarksdale, and is a recipient of a W.C. Handy award for Commercial Radio. Harris is also a proud retired educator, and past president of the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Salem, MA.

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