Fingers and picks, nylon and steel, acoustics and electrics -- all tossed into this salad

Standing In Line

Various guitars, strumming, pickin' and slidin'

Going Green

Slipstream

First new music from my new studio in our new home in Frederick, Maryland

Wednesday Morning

Some Fenders and Martins in the workshop together

Momentary Memory

Mostly acoustic instruments, finger-picking and flat-picking, steel strings and nylon strings.

Valley Road

Inspired by a recent visit to a historical site with the graves of many people remembered only as "unknown."

To The Unknown

Switchback

Titled in celebration of this vital insect's flourishing in Frederick County, Maryland :)

Honeybee

Timber Grove

A buncha Fenders, plus a coupla dreadnaughts, and a few touches of a lap steel on an up-tempo groove in G.

Holiday

Take Five

A Martin D18 and a Martin OM28 in a marriage of harmony and tone, dedicated to my beloved for our 43rd wedding anniversary :)

Another Year Further

Three Teles, one Strat, one D18, and a djembe recently gifted to me by a friend :)

Ides Of September

Short Ribs

Pensive strumming and picking for end of the day reflections

Evening Sun

Fender-y rock through an overdriven Princeton Reverb

What's The Score?

All parts here played on a '52 Reissue American Vintage Telecaster (the one shown in my SoundCloud profile pic) through a '65 Deluxe Reverb Reissue

Change Of Plans

Fender guitars -- one Jazzmaster, two Strats, and one Jaguar --washed in reverb and tremolo :)

Besides

Two bari ukes drive this piece, accompanied by a resonator and a Martin OM 28.

McClellan Winds

Named for a recent first-time visit to Sacramento

Tower Bridge

Saying yes to all the commitments of my life, including the commitment to music :)

Still Yes

All the parts on this track were played on a Gretsch Jet Electromatic, in which I recently swapped the stock "Broadtron" pickups for Mojotone "Mojotron" Filtertron Classics and replaced all the electronics with CTS components, including two push-pull pots for coil splitting.  Everything was recorded through a '68 Custom Deluxe Reverb on the vintage channel.

Black Cherry Orchard

One Gretsch Jet, one Stratocaster, one Jaguar, one Martin D16e, and a B-flat harmonica for good measure 

State of Mind

Bouncy and a little jazzy, mostly finger-picking and some flat-picking on a variety of acoustic and electric instruments

Skinnin' the Game

A bit of pizzicato flat-picking on a Strat, a Jaguar, and a Jet.

The Breakers

Romantic-mood finger picking on a couple of Strats and a nylon six string with some gentle ebowing on a Jaguar.

Grow Old With Me

Some lap steel and a couple of slide parts add the color on this piece picked and strummed on various Fender and Martin guitars.

Steel City Express

Alternate tunings on some of the instruments playing this piece in B Major, titled for the feelings that inspired it.

Gladness

All parts on this track played clean on a Jazzmaster through a '65 Deluxe Reverb reissue.

Coming Around

A combination of electric and acoustic instruments strumming, picking, and sliding in F minor (or G# Major :)

Yellow Springs

First Light

A Deluxe Tele, a Gretsch Jet, and a Martin D 16 scootching over for one another on this track.

Scootch Over

I enjoy composing, arranging and recording music on an ever-expanding array of guitars, especially Fender electrics and Martin acoustics.  My musical journey began more than half a century ago, and every day brings new opportunities for continued growth as a musician.  My current leading influences include Jim Campilongo, Scotty Anderson and Guthrie Trapp.  I love Beethoven, Keith Richards, Henry Mancini, Aretha Franklin and a thousand others whose music has brought me joy, whether for many decades or for a few minutes.  I strive to learn something from every piece of music that I hear, and to make music that others will enjoy hearing.

I'm an amateur DIYer in terms of recording, doing everything in my music space at home and learning as I go.  I enjoy experimenting with a variety of microphones and mic placements, recording into a Zoom R16 and using Audacity as my DAW.  I use an array of Fender tube amps, all blackface/silverface reissues, and a modest pedal board.  I record acoustic instruments either with condenser microphones directly on the instruments or else amped through a Fishman Loudbox Mini.

Paul Baglyos

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