"Acoustic Reflections" is what Scott Balsai calls the compositions he creates on his acoustic guitar. "Each piece," he says, "reflects a sliver of my life, but taken together, they can be seen as musical diary of 'tone poems' which reflect my life as a whole." The compositions carry the listener from Balsai's home in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to his hiking the Appalachian Trail, to his moving across the country and his living, teaching, skiing, fishing and hiking in Idaho.

Having been born and reared in Bethlehem, Pa. from 1954 to 1980, Balsai had the fortune of having been located in an unusually rich musical milieu. Home of the Godfrey Daniels Coffee House where the likes of John Gorka and others got their start, Balsai remembers when he too warmed audiences there before he moved to Idaho in 1981 to pursue a career in education. He also remembers learning his first electric guitar licks with the help of Steve Kimock, who is now an internationally known rock-jazz guitarist.

Scott has recorded three CD's of "Acoustic Reflections" which as Taylor Guitars says, "...ring with sparkling clarity...and...glimmer with the rich, hypnotic pulse of a sun-dappled stream." His first CD, entitled Waiting for the Sun , was recorded in Pocatello in 1998 with the help of Steve Eaton. This CD has since sold out, and in 2010 Scott released a new version entitled Waiting for the Sun: Second Edition which was recorded in his own recording studio, between the years 2007 and 2010. Scott's second CD, entitled Falling Colors on Prairie Braid, was recorded, with the help of Dan Mihlfeith, in Pocatello in 2004. Scott's third CD, entitled Reflections of Maple and Mahogany: A Musical Diary , was recorded by Scott Balsai in his Acoustic Reflections recording studio from 2007 to 2010.

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Established: July 2006
Last Updated: 30 March 2008