POET. SONGWRITER. STORYTELLER.
That is Masorti. A narrator of American tales with the instincts of a history buff. A string picker who came to the guitar late and plays like a man making up for lost time. A lawyer gone musical renegade, riding head-on through valleys of notes; an outlaw poet, an untamed chord slinger, and a passionate barside storyteller.
Masorti writes from where memory, guilt, and desire rub against American history. Raised in Castanea, Pennsylvania, on family farmland near where Bald Eagle Creek meets the West Branch of the Susquehanna, he carries Appalachia like a point of view: plainspoken, history-haunted and alert to the old stories moving beneath ordinary lives. Stories that kept him digging deep underground until he surfaced in New York.
But the beginning came late. Not until he was nearly forty did Masorti buy his first guitar, after hearing a young blues guitarist play to a sparse crowd in Dayton, Ohio. Largely self-taught, he began writing almost immediately and hasn’t stopped since.
The guitar, however, did not replace the courtroom. Masorti still practices criminal defense after more than three decades, and years spent among testimony, doubt, and consequence sharpened the instinct at the heart of his songs: find the human fracture and tell the story without cleaning it up.
His music begins in Americana but does not stay obediently inside it, moving through folk, blues, rock and alternative territory. In New York, he has recorded with musicians including Conrad Korsch, Oz Noy, Stan Harrison, Bob Franceschini, and Brian Delaney. Their musicianship broadens the frame, but the center remains Masorti’s rough-edged voice and literate, emotionally direct writing, heard across a catalogue that opens with his debut, Father’s Eyes (2008), and runs through 80 East (EP), From the Darkness, Mirrors (2022), Lost at Sea (2023) to Histories trilogy (2025-26).
Appalachia raised him. New York made him. Nothing in between got sanded down. He would rather be honest than tidy, and he has never once walked into a room quietly.
A real romance hero of ordinary stature.
Saso Sandic
There are musical traditions that could only have come from Appalachia, like mountain fiddle and bluegrass. A breeding ground for inherited genius and uninhibited innovation. Personifications of entire genres: The Carter Family, Doc Watson.
Many decades further down that line, a grandson of good ole Americana appears in the unlikely form of a criminal defense attorney: a man with a restless imagination and an insatiable appetite for poetry.
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