Scott is our first repeat performer and was the second to play in the series. His show sold out in 5 days! Scott is described as a magnificent musician and a mesmerizing historian, he presents concerts on the African roots and the American diversity of the blues, America's most influential indigenous music. Using anecdotes from the lives of original performers, history and sociology, Ainslie tracks the movement of African musical and cultural ideas across the Atlantic and across the South with visits to the East coast's ragtime blues, the Mississippi Delta's deep blues, slide guitar and early gospel music. He's written the best-selling book "Robert Johnson/At the Crossroads" on Mississippi blues legend Robert Johnson as well as produced a teaching video, "Robert Johnson's Guitar Techniques: on Starlicks Video's Master Sessions series. He has three popular CDs to his credit,
