Gary Del Vecchio has folks “Buzzin'” about his music 50 years after he recorded it.

On Friday, Riding Easy Records released “Buzzin’,” a collection of songs the Warren musician recorded between 1970 and 1975.

“It’s nice recognition, and it’s getting good feedback,” Del Vecchio said.

Right now it’s available to hear on streaming services and for digital download, but Riding Easy plans CD and vinyl releases later this year. Most of the nine tracks on the album never have been available commercially before.

Riding Easy specializes in rereleasing forgotten gems from the late ’60s and ’70s, many by bands that only had local or regional followings when they were together. The label included the title track to “Buzzin'” on its 2021 compilation “Brown Acid: The Thirteenth Trip.”

Del Vecchio was only 16 years old when he recorded the songs at Peppermint Studios in Youngstown. The track opens with the chatter of friends who were in the studio that day and the voice of Peppermint owner Gary Rhamy saying, “This is Buzzin’ take number three …,” before Del Vecchio’s guitar riff kicks in.

The band on that session also featured Gary Mills on bass and Tony Ferderber on drums. It was released under the band name Max, with “Dream Woman” as the B-side. That original single has fetched as much as $200 from collectors.

Del Vecchio said his primary guitar influences were Joe Walsh and Phil Keaggy, guys who went on to international fame but who were playing the same local clubs and dances (Walsh with The Measles and The James Gang and Keaggy with Glass Harp) as Del Vecchio.

“You can definitely hear their style, their influence,” he said. “Then I got into David Gilmour (of Pink Floyd).”

The single was Del Vecchio’s only official release, but he continued to perform and record with Mills and other local players — Gary Boggess, Phil Daugherty, Rick Vannelli, Bill Hapgood, Jimmy Hahn — and some of those recordings can be heard on the new release.

The album also includes music Del Vecchio recorded after leaving the Mahoning Valley for California, where he fronted the band Scareb. That band had a big enough following that when they shared the bill once with future Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Bo Diddley, it was Diddley who opened for Scareb.

Del Vecchio moved back to the area around 1980 and owned the recording studio Inner Chamber Sound Labs in Girard in the early ’80s, and he continues to make music in his home studio in Warren.

He originally compiled his unreleased songs on a CD that he gave to friends and family. After Riding Easy released the song “Buzzin'” on “Brown Acid,” he sent the owner a copy of the compilation, which is how the album happened.

“They had to knock off a couple songs because it was too much time for a (vinyl) album,” Del Vecchio said. “I was surprised at some of the ones they off.”

That just gives him material for a follow up. Right now there are no plans to play out live in conjunction with the album, but he might reconsider when they physical copies are available for purchase.