Soloist' Ayers Teams Up With Music Pros to Record First Album

Nathaniel Ayers (Photo by R.E.˜ via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) Homeless musician Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, the subject of the book and film The Soloist, has recorded his first album, and today LA Times columnist and longtime advocate of Ayers Steve Lopez tells the story of the tenuous process. Over the past couple of years Ayers would vacillate on his comfort with the project, Lopez explains, remarking "he'd back off one day,
Nathaniel Ayers (Photo by R.E.˜ via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) Homeless musician Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, the subject of the book and film The Soloist, has recorded his first album, and today LA Times columnist and longtime advocate of Ayers Steve Lopez tells the story of the tenuous process. Over the past couple of years Ayers would vacillate on his comfort with the project, Lopez explains, remarking he'd back off one day

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