MANSFIELD — Brady Jacquin is by no means new to playing music, and now he has released original songs to prove it.
Jacquin’s EP can also be found on iTunes, Spotify and Google Play.
Like many, family members introduced him to the guitar. From the first few strums, he was hooked.
“I just sort of gravitated towards it,” he said with a smile. “I started using my dad’s guitar and he taught me for about a month.”
With an arsenal of chords, Jacquin took to YouTube tutorials to learn more songs, he said.
“I was just going to learn more songs like John Mayer (tunes) back when I was really into that kind of music.”
The 19-year-old now is often seen playing downtown, performing songs by the Avett Brothers, Fleet Foxes and other folk musicians. He also has original music. He recorded a three-track EP, ‘Brady Giaquinto,’ last summer over the course three months.
“You can tell I take my time with my songs,” he said laughing. “I was actually mostly done with my first song and decided to scrap that.”
He then recorded the whole thing live, which he said gave him confidence to finish the other two tracks.
“That first song, once I got it, it made it easier to go through recordings,” Jacquin said. “Once you have one under your belt, it makes you more comfortable in the studio.”
“Brady Giaquinto” varies from finger-style plucking tunes to an up-beat tempo to a song with folk imagery.
“(The final song song is) Fox and the Kingfisher. It’s my weirdest song,” he said. “It’s actually taken from an Apache folk tale.
“One of my favorite bands is Fleet Foxes,” he said. “They are heavily influenced by history and folk tales from around the world. Almost everyone of their songs is like that. It’s influenced me a lot. There’s a lot of beauty in that.”
Jacquin said his song mimics the tale about a fox influenced by other creatures he meets along the way.
“I found a lot of inspiration from that. It was very easy to write the song,” he said.
For longest time, his EP existed only on SoundCloud, but he admitted that was not convenient for him or his fans.
“I felt I needed to get it to more mediums,” he said. “The first was an actual CD. My brother said I should be handing them out when I play around town, I thought that was a great idea.”
