Stage Left

The title is a reference to his hallowed position on the Jethro Tull stage assignment.

Featuring 13 instrumental tracks (and one with vocals, "Don't Say a Word"), Barre moves through a wide range of guitar-based styles including (but not limited to) classical and blues acoustics, progressive rock, acoustic folk, 80s-styled finger picking and even ambient electronic styles.

[2] Martin stated that the album was conceived with most attention to the melodies, thinking always in the balance between acoustic and electric pieces.

The album shows a great variety of guitars and other string instruments, as the bouzouki and the mandolin.

Giving three stars, the review goes to praise Martin taste for melodies instead of simple guitar solos, also stating Martin's "highly textured approach, playing electric rock guitar much of the time as if he was playing English folk music on an acoustic.