Скачать или смотреть Scott Balsai does his DADGAD original composition-"Smoke in the Canyon"

This is another live "parlor concert" video of Scott Balsai playing another of his original fingerstyle guitar compositions off of his CD, "Falling Colors on Prairie Braid".
The piece is titled " Smoke in the Canyon" and is in the DADGAD tuning.
It starts in a minor key with a soft ominous intro indicative of an image of a grayish white plume of smoke coming up over the horizon. It quickly transitions into a more energized arpeggiated riff indicative of the proverbial metaphorical squirrel of flame burning across the ground seeking a tree trunk to climb onto in order to spread its contagion of burning flame on "the wings of the wind". The energy then begins to increase as the fire intensifies until the end when the traveling embers float to an adjacent canyon to start the process all over again.
Also, while Idaho, and much of the western Rockies, seem to be locked in a winter killing high pressure this year, this musical piece for Scott may be foretelling things to come this summer if things across the Rocky Mountain West don't soon become wetter and more snowy.
(Note: Scott took his use of the metaphorical "squirrel" of flame from William Golding's book "Lord of the Flies". In fact, he actually became inspired to compose this piece while engaged with his English classes in using Golding's novel when he was still a teacher. This piece, and Golding's novel, could also be seen as a symbolic reference to how the world's geopolitical relations seem to be burning up right now across the planet.)
(Note: Scott tunes his guitars about one whole step down from the actual pitch denoted by the tuning designation.)
This video was recorded and posted on February 16, 2026.
This video was recorded using only his RODE stereo microphone mounted on a Nikon camera. Scott was also plugged into one AER Compact Mobile acoustic amplifier. Like his other videos, it was not mixed or mastered for sound but was recorded live and posted here on You Tube.
On this video Scott uses his Taylor 614ce from 2002.

Scott's up coming live performances:
https://www.bandsintown.com/a/1563093...
You can book a gig with Scott at:
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You can hear and/or download the original CD recording of this piece on Scott's Bandcamp page at:
https://scottbalsai.bandcamp.com/trac...
You can hear and or download all of Scott's solo fingerstyle acoustic guitar recordings at
https://scottbalsai.bandcamp.com/
You can also hear the original audio CD recording of this piece on You Tube at:
   • Smoke in the Canyon  
You can hear more of Scott Balsai, both instrumental and vocal covers, at his YouTube channel at
   / @scottbalsai  
Lastly, you can also hear this piece and others at Apple Music at
  / scott-balsai  
as well as many of the other streaming services such as Spotify and Amazon, etc..
You can contact Scott by email from his contact link on his Bandcamp page at
https://scottbalsai.bandcamp.com/
As well as the top description of his Home page on his You Tube channel at
   / @scottbalsai  
(As always, we suggest headphones or ear phones for the best sound representation.)
Enjoy.