3) A Grandparent's Love Is Forever
4) Love In the Time of Monsters
5) Pascual Lives (With Larry Coryell)
6) I Am A Man
7) Livin' It Up
10) It's OK
For 61 years I have played the hell out of the Guitar, written a well-selling book about how to play, composed over 2000 pieces of music, won many awards and at the age of 72 I am about to release another 8-10 albums of music. I work 7 days a week, 4-10 hours a day and just finished recreating "I Am The Walrus". I have 717 songs in my ASCAP catalogue that I own and publish. In addition, about 40 licensed cover songs.
For the same amount of time I have mastered pencil, paint and digital art.
Explore my stuff through the "MORE" link above to see what can be done by a determined 5'4" dude.
Occasionally I use AI to create some art for my album covers or videos, but NEVER my MUSIC. Vertical videos and AI art are the future to younger people, so if it facilitates a person to become engaged with my works, so be it.
My student Lori J. suggested we compose a song for all the grandparents out there - so we got her two grandchildren Charlie and Jayden to write lyrics that inspired them about their grandparents. We wrote and performed the music, and it's sung with beautiful voice of Michele Cooney!
Listen to the lyrics from a 10 year old girl and a 16 year old sporty boy and your faith in humanity will be restored.
And if Michele's voice doesn't bring you to tears, you just aren't really listening. Click the art!
The instrumental version of
"A Grandparent's Love Is Forever" by the Sextet ...
once again like the
Paul Santa Maria
Guitar and Bass Sextet
recordings, volumes 1-4, this features all the guitars seen in the ORIGINAL artwork above. Volume 4 is in progress for later in 2025.
Click the album art to hear it.
It's BEAUTIFUL, right?
I painted that girl in Photoshop. NO AI used for the art or music.
¡Ahoy, perras malvadas!
I am Italian/Sicilian (like Chick Corea, who wrote "SPAIN".) When I moved from Buffalo NY to Miami, Horriduh in 1982, I composed for PBS, for TV and films of all kinds and performed with lots of Latin bands, learning their killer moves.
I restored, updated, re-recorded and augmented my best Latino tunes, and just finished both volumes (19 pieces each.)
Hang in there and get ready to move your asses...
BECAUSE IT'S LIVE!
CLICK THE ART
Volume 2 of all my best Latin music, 19 more songs, one vocal tune that I restored from the 80's that has a killer guitar solo!
It's live, so click the art to check them out.
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UPCOMING ALBUMS:
Sinister Scores Remaster, Reggae Beatles (maybe)
Timbercats II, Music for the Passing of a Life,
British Comedy Music,
Sextet #4, Insts #9, #10, #11
Man+Machine 2.0, Love, Love, Love (3 albums)
Children's Tunes, New Happy Birthdays, +more.
I do it all myself, so it takes time.
Recently a friend asked for music he could play as his beloved dog was crossing over the Rainbow Bridge, as pet owners call passing on.
I have composed and performed MANY requiems in the past for humans and animals alike and I thought I would gather them together. Some are incredibly sad but some are happy -
I guess if they help you cope, then I did a good thing through music, the greatest healer. Coming SOON.
Beatles, King Crimson, Coryell and Pauly stuff for 2025. CRIMSON:
"Starless", "In The Court of the Crimson King", "Moonchild",
"I Talk To The Wind"
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NEW BEATLES COVERS:
"Something" " I Am the Walrus" and "Mother Nature's Son" and "Hold Me Tight!"
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PSM/Larry Coryell:
4 new ones!
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This very complicated collection of specific
scale tones will be available
in October 2025.
My new 12 String guitar shines on this one! Lyrics include references to Leonardo, Michelangelo, Medusa, finding girlfriends, Paul McCartney's beautiful ballad "I Will" (FAR superior than Harrison's "Something", but it gets overlooked) and fantasies-not realized. Click the album art to watch the video I created for this killer pop composition!
Pencil artwork and Photoshop by Pauly.
2025 is the 50th anniversary of the greatest band I ever played in - we were days away from signing to be produced, published and launched by the great Chick Corea before his partner stepped in - (Ron Moss - a__hole!) It is all the recordings of the group that I have (to date) plus "Inverted Forest" *
Featuring myself,
Tom Shirley: Drums
Jim Schwab: Bass,
* Jerry Keating: Keyboards
Bonus: "The Dream of SSS" a song I wrote for SSS but never recorded with them.
Recorded Summer 1974 @ Trackmaster Audio https://www.gcraudio.com/
I composed and performed this tune for my growing legion of
Bass Guitar students ... it's a driving rock tune that works on it's own or as instruction.
HOT TAKE: If you or your kid are/is a bass guitar player and you can master this tune, send me a link to a video and if you nail it, I will give you a FREE pdf copy of my book The Guitar Explained. All ages welcome.
Click my MusicMan StingRay Bass Guitar in the picture to be taken to the Youtube playlist with the 3 versions to learn it.
The "Photo" is a combo of AI and my artwork.
My whole 2003 CD plus 9 new tunes in a country vein...all original 12 songs remastered and also new parts added to each song, making them more the way I heard them but could not achieve on a 4 track cassette recorder back then.
The cover photo is up the road from our family farm in Short Tract, NY. Art by Pauly.
Click album art to go to Youtube playlist!
1) Holly, Mistletoe and Ivy
(I Love Christmas)
2) A Little Kid's Christmas
3) Son of Marley's Ghost
4) 12 Days of Christmas V2
5) Holly, Mistletoe and Ivy (Instrumental Version)
All voices, instruments, recordings, mastering and Artwork by PSM.
#Click album art for Youtube playlist
A brand new re-recording of a song I wrote in 1983 on the way to a gig in deepest darkest Kendall, a suburb of Miami, Most Horriduh, Hell.
The moon was absolutely full, I had a 45 minute drive and we played from 10pm to 4:30 am!
5 nights a week! INSANITY.
But there he was, hanging in the sky and all the clichés about full moons came to me.
NOTE: The instrumental version is on the new TIMBERCATS REMASTERED album.
9 NEW instrumentals plus 3 Remastered updates from the Sextet Vol. 1 release, which was distributed before I had Ozone Advanced Mastering software ... Coming July 2024. Cover Art:
"Under The Influence" (1981) 2H/3H pencil drawing by
Paul Santa Maria
20 Songs on this compilation of material that I added new 2024 guitar tracks to that compliment the original recording.
Released : 7/23/2024.
Some easy listening funk, rock tunes, all kinds o' styles!
My Les Paul and Ensoniq
ASR 10 make a mighty pairing!
11 cool tunes including 2024 recorded versions of
DREAM PEOPLE (REVENGE),
13, PARALLEL UNIVERSE and
my 50's hit songs (shoulda been, any damn way) "I Am A Man"
and a killer "Livin' It Up"...
Brian Setzer should cover it,
but he won't - too cool 4 school.
All Instruments, Voices, Music and Lyrics by Paul Santa Maria
10 songs that are remakes, remixes, recreations of songs of mine that were released over 20 years ago and pretty much before the age of songs being able to be traced by codes and companies to pay us properly. Needless to say I'm a WAY BETTER engineer and master-er now than then, so the audio quality is so much better it's inspiring!
LIVE NOW! Click CDArt to listen to playlist.
4 versions on the main version 10 sec. 30 sec. 60 sec. 2:00,
each length cut for broadcast considerations. Fun party music for those of you who are not rich enough yet. Click the art for my Youtube channel to subscribe and see hundreds of my original music Vertical Content videos!
Model: Heather in Ohio
20 songs never before released from my catalogue! All original material and performances by Pauly! Christmas tunes - don't miss "The Christmas March"!
And if you're a fan of Tower of Power, check out : "Power Tower Badass Funk"!
"Queen of the Skies" Artwork by Pauly.
25 MORE tunes from my extensive archive, newly mastered, reconsidered, reconstructed, etc. Many variations, kid's music, Christmas, Chill stuff too. As always, artwork by Pauly - the Queen Tree...which is also available as a print up to 11x14".
22 songs Remastered / Reconstructed with technology and abilities I did not have when I released the original "Gurl Crazy" cd in 2003. Now with 10 bonus tracks over the original release.
Click the text above to read the special award...remember, this competition had 335 entries and 7 finalists -and my original music was in 5 of the final 7.
I'm not going to be paying the licensing for these again, but I didn't have mastering software when I released them in 2021. So since I paid, then here are 3 mp3's you can download and then, you might want to go to youtube.com and play them each 1 time so the Beatles don't come after me ;)
Please consider downloading the entire album - it took me 11 months of work and I'm proud of the results!
All artwork, photography, design, recordings, editing, mastering, musical instruments, voices, lyrics and compositions copyright 1975- 2088 Paul Santa Maria unless otherwise noted in the list below. I am adding new stuff all the time so stay alert. NOTE: Click on any album's artwork to be taken to the full cd playlist or single ... also, since I am a visual artist as well, I have updated most of the artwork here on my site, but the music is the same on Youtube or the other platforms.
Kenny Clarke - Keyboards: Música mi Amor, 7th Cosmos
Yves Nadeau - Life Is Koo-Koo, How Vamplike, Bolero https://yvesnadeau.bandcamp.com/album/talbleaux
Michele Cooney - Lyrics and Voice "Who Prays for God [The Question]
Keyboards: "Fast Girls" 2021, "She's The One", Voice: "A Grandparent's Love Is Forever"
Larry Coryell - Third Guitar on Life Is Koo-Koo, Pascual Lives, Solea, Purple Haze, House Burning Down, How Vamplike, Inseparable - R.I.P.
Rose Mendez - Vocals : "Hello", When Love's Not Around", Fell In Love Today", "Carry On", Do U Wanna Danze", "Point Blank", "Responsibility"
Barry Jonah Hirsh - Many 1980's / 90's killer keyboard solos, Lead Voice on "Haunted House Blues" versions 1 and 2 - R.I.P.
Louie Nagy Drums: "Tell The Truth", "Get You In The Night", "Voodoo"
Jeff Richards, Jr. Drums: "Rain", "Lady Madonna", "And Your Bird Can Sing", "Nowhere Man", "It's OK"
John Jenkins - Drums "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Serious Love" "She's The One", "Somebody's Following You"
Mark R. Harris - Bass solo on "Fast Girls 2021"
Dean Rickard - Drums: "A Happy Cajun Song", "Fast Girls 2021"
Don New - That Scary Baritone Sax on "Nightmares"
Tracey Coryell - Voice and music/lyrics on "Inseparable" and co-write on "Song Of the Lotus Sutra" Settle Down. Voice on Geisha Girl, Local Hero, ICU2, In The Air Tonight (Phil Collins cover).
Tom Shirley - Drums "On The Surface" (all SSS,) + Laff At It.
Jim Schwab - Bass, "On The Surface" (all SSS).
David Jerge - Voice/Lyrics on "Laff At It" - R.I.P.
Jamie Danger (Slater) - vocals on "November Eyes 2023"
Rick Collins - Drums "Jaded", "A Snake In the Driver's Seat 1",
"I'll Still Love You" (Coming Soon)
Except for a few cover tunes and co-writes (about 40 songs total) all songs are wholly owned by Paul Santa Maria and copyrighted and released as proofs. Copyrights will NOT be sold nor transferred, only publishing rights percentages.
As of April 2024, I am now represented by the Harry Fox Agency!
Contact me H E R E or at TheGuitarExplained at yahoo.com
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