Your Waco Weekend

Sherman Ayres Steps into the Light

Last July, 72-year-old Sherman Ayres stepped onto the Texas Music Cafe stage to record a live album drawn from songs he’d been writing for decades. Before settling in Central Texas and spending more than thirty years working for M&M Mars, he had what he thought was his one shot at a music career in Memphis during the 1980s. Instead, he walked away after record executives tried turning him into someone he wasn’t.

🎧 This nine-minute episode of Your Waco Weekend isn’t just an unexpected comeback story. It’s about how Ayres’s songs finally emerged after being hidden in notebooks, cassette tapes, and memory.

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