Nick Adduci is hands-on when it comes to his music.

For his third album, “Conversations,” the Hubbard musician wrote all 10 songs and produced and arranged them at Peppermint Recording Studios in Youngstown. He plays the majority of the instruments, and he even painted the album cover image.

“I’ve just always been the creative type,” Adduci said. “I always liked to draw and sing. I started to play the guitar around 10 years old, and when I started playing the guitar, it was just a natural thing for me to want to write a song.”

Adduci, 25, listed Bob Dylan, The Beatles and Steely Dan among his influences and credited his father for introducing him to their music as a child.

“Conversations” is the second album Adduci has recorded at Peppermint.

“I always knew about Peppermint,” he said. “I always admired the music that came out of there. I admired Anthony LaMarca and The Building and The Vindys and all those bands that recorded there, the modern groups, not to mention the historical groups that recorded there.”

And while Adduci played guitar, piano, bass, harmonica and organ and did all of the vocals, he recruited the Grammy-winning LaMarca to play drums on the record. The other musicians are LaMarca’s wife, Megan, on cello and Peter Paul Burger on steel guitar.

While his last album, “United Music II,” had a more stripped-down approach, the sound of “Conversations” harkens back to his first release, 2021’s “United Music.”

“I kind of wanted to go back to that wall of sound that I had on my first album,” Adduci said. “I tried to be a little more ambitious this time around production wise. I invited some other people to play on the album, because I wanted a bigger sound, but I wanted it to be tasteful too. I didn’t want to do too much, to overproduce it. That was the main thing. I thought that maybe I under-produced ‘United Music II,’ so I wanted to just go a little more ambitious with this one.”

He also used a different release strategy. He released one single for streaming ahead of the debut of “United Music” and none for the sequel. This time Adduci has distributed four of the 10 songs from “Conversations” in advance on the streaming services.

“I wanted to showcase some of the different styles on the album,” he said. “I tried to pick a variety, ones with different kinds of sound profiles. I thought maybe it would be a good way to kind of build up to it (the album release). I’m not sure how much of a difference it will make once the album comes out, but if anything, it’s just an opportunity to be able to design the covers for the singles and use up more artwork and paintings I have.”

Adduci is an art teacher in Farrell (Pa.) Area School District, and the cover of “Conversations” is a painting he did in college inspired by a photograph of his parents from the 1990s that was taken by his grandmother.

In addition to the streaming release, “Conversations” will be available on CD at Adduci’s gigs and through his Bandcamp page. There’s no album release show currently scheduled, but Adduci — who normally performs solo — is working to put together a band in order to do a performance that reflects the studio arrangements in a live setting.

“I guess it will be a post-album-release show.”