Steve Brosky’s music has been synonymous with the Lehigh Valley for more than 30 years. The fedora-topped legend and his songwriting and album-producing companions grew up in the shadow of the great Bethlehem Steel stacks and their experiences will be shared in that same shadow when Steve Brosky and His Lil’ Big Band perform at 8 p.m. Nov. 23, Fowler Blast Furnace Room, ArtsQuest Center, SteelStacks, 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem, to celebrate the release of his new CD, “Still.”

“I really struggled to find a theme for this album,” says Brosky. “To me, ‘Still’ means that I’m saying I’m still Steve Brosky in the sense that I am still making music, I still have a voice as a singer and as a writer and I still know the joy of doing it.”

Brosky’s joy is as evident in his new album as it is with all of his other projects and bands he has worked with over the years. For “Still,” Brosky collaborated with old friends, Jimmy Meyer, an exceptional guitarist with whom Brosky performs regularly as a duo; songwriter-lyricist Paul Willistein, a professional Lehigh Valley journalist; Wayne Becker, producer-owner, Westwires Recording USA, Allentown, where the CD was recorded, and Josh Klein, an Allentown songwriter.

While he enjoys creating art, Brosky says he still encounters the trials of any working musician.

“The culture has changed in the last few years or so where you’re going to have trouble being seen unless you’re on television and radio,” said Brosky. “Paul [Willistein] and I wrote a song for this album called ‘I’ll Find My Way Back to You’ and it could be romantic but I see it as finding my way back to popular radio because I enjoyed that at one time. It might sound like I’m crying the blues but this is how things are now.”

Brosky experienced “popular radio” in 1983, when he wrote the song, “Do The Dutch (Hey Now)” with Mike Krisukas and Willistein in reaction to Billy Joel’s hit song, “Allentown.” “Do the Dutch” was a regional hit, played on local station WZZO and aired on Dr. Demento’s national radio show.

Luckily, Brosky not only cries the blues, he sings them as well. Untethered by any one musical genre, he dabbles in blues, rock, gospel, Americana and more not only on this album but in all the songs he performs.

Most of his songs ring true about the Lehigh Valley and the surrounding area because they are based heavily on his experiences living here. There’s a reason he was given the key to the city of Allentown in 1983, and it’s because he writes what he knows. And he knows Allentown.

“I often am able to turn my experiences into art. I believe that for anyone who creates in a creative sense, most things will be based on their own experience. Not just painters, but musicians and writers and artists as well.”

Brosky’s life experiences are the subject of a stage show, “Steve Brosky: The Musical - Living Here in Allentown,” which debuted at McCoole’s Arts & Events Place, Quakertown, in November 2015 and was presented at the Charles A. Brown Ice House, Bethlehem, with plans to present it in Allentown.

The musical, written by Brosky and George B. Miller, who directed it, is about Brosky growing up the Sixth Ward, Allentown; serving in the Vietnam War in 1969, and becoming a musician and singer-songwriter who has received 12 Lehigh Valley Music awards. Brosky and his wife, Renata, a former teacher, live in Whitehall Township.

“Still” is Brosky’s sixth album. His catalogue includes “Grateful” (2013), “Brosky Chronicles” (2007), “Trouble” (2005), “Limestone & James” (2000), “Hits From Allentown” (1999) and an EP with The BBC (1983).

Brosky, who has opened for B.B. King and Bo Diddley, has performed at Musikfest and Mayfair and regularly gigs at restaurants in the region.

The Lehigh Valley can have its own experience with Steve Brosky in the Blast Furnace Room at ArtsQuest Center. Brosky also has some parting words about his signature lid.

“I believe you can tell a whole lot about a man from his shoes and his hat. Accessorizing is very important,” he continues, laughing, “I sound like a grumpy old man sitting on a porch, but we can be a little classier as a nation in the way we dress. So if America’s listening, dress up!”