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13089342 | Play | The Bricklayer's Beautiful Daughter | 04:19 Tools | |
13089343 | Play | The Impending Death of the Virgin Spirit | 06:17 Tools | |
13089345 | Play | Processional | 04:33 Tools | |
13089344 | Play | Anne's Song | 03:36 Tools | |
13089346 | Play | Hawk Circle | 05:05 Tools | |
13089353 | Play | Shella's Pictures | 05:19 Tools | |
13089354 | Play | Climbing in Geometry | 00:00 Tools | |
13089349 | Play | Unconditional | 02:36 Tools | |
13089351 | Play | Driving | 00:00 Tools | |
13089356 | Play | Ventana | 00:00 Tools | |
13089355 | Play | Slow Motion Roast Beef Restaurant Seduction | 00:00 Tools | |
13089347 | Play | Visiting | 00:00 Tools | |
76930754 | Play | Big Thing in the Sky (For Jess) | 00:00 Tools | |
13089366 | Play | Emmanuel | 00:00 Tools | |
76930755 | Play | Conferring With the Moon | 00:00 Tools | |
13089387 | Play | I Know This River | 00:00 Tools | |
13089358 | Play | Sound of Wind Driven Rain | 00:00 Tools | |
13089370 | Play | A Koan From Hugh | 00:00 Tools | |
13089436 | Play | Three Observations of One Ocean | 00:00 Tools | |
13089361 | Play | Night Slip | 00:00 Tools | |
13089348 | Play | The Opening Of Doors | 00:00 Tools | |
13089364 | Play | Just Before Dawn | 00:00 Tools | |
13089363 | Play | Seattle | 00:00 Tools | |
13089352 | Play | Pictures | 00:00 Tools | |
87086214 | Play | Brother a Teaches 7 | 00:00 Tools | |
13089350 | Play | Barbara's Song | 00:00 Tools | |
13089381 | Play | The Last Day at the Beach | 00:00 Tools | |
13089412 | Play | Singing Crocodile | 00:00 Tools | |
13089401 | Play | For the Asking | 00:00 Tools | |
13089365 | Play | Floyd's Ghost | 00:00 Tools | |
13089394 | Play | Conferring with the Moon (solo) | 07:36 Tools | |
13089390 | Play | A Happy Home in Kathmandu | 00:00 Tools | |
13089372 | Play | Shape of the Land | 00:00 Tools | |
13089397 | Play | Garage Planet | 00:00 Tools | |
50348077 | Play | Light And Song | 00:00 Tools | |
13089368 | Play | Murray's Song | 00:00 Tools | |
13089428 | Play | A Child's Song | 04:06 Tools | |
13089439 | Play | Before We Left This All Behind | 00:00 Tools | |
76930757 | Play | Region Of Clouds | 00:00 Tools | |
13089367 | Play | Was It This Lifetime | 00:00 Tools | |
76930758 | Play | Wings on the Water | 00:00 Tools | |
13089393 | Play | Balancing | 00:00 Tools | |
13089382 | Play | Santos and the Well-Traveled Bear | 00:00 Tools | |
13089360 | Play | Zuzu's Petals | 00:00 Tools | |
13089407 | Play | This Clearness of Light | 00:00 Tools | |
13089362 | Play | The 1000 Mile Stare | 00:00 Tools | |
13089437 | Play | Briars Above The Well | 00:00 Tools | |
13089383 | Play | Last Day at the Beach | 00:00 Tools | |
13089442 | Play | Mr. Jackson's Hat | 00:00 Tools | |
13089429 | Play | Walk With Me | 00:00 Tools | |
87086215 | Play | Lion's in the Sky | 00:00 Tools | |
13089380 | Play | Dawn Treader | 00:00 Tools | |
13089392 | Play | The Townshend Shuffle | 00:00 Tools | |
13089465 | Play | Rain Sequence (From the Townsend Shuffle) | 00:00 Tools | |
13089403 | Play | Pacific I | 00:00 Tools | |
87086216 | Play | It Takes a Year | 00:00 Tools | |
13089384 | Play | Last Dance | 00:00 Tools | |
13089369 | Play | New England Morning | 00:00 Tools | |
13089452 | Play | Lago de Montanas (Mountain Lake) | 00:00 Tools | |
13089425 | Play | His Old Eyes | 04:59 Tools | |
13089376 | Play | Silver Gate | 00:00 Tools | |
13089464 | Play | Impending Death of the Virgin Spirit | 00:00 Tools | |
13089377 | Play | Ely | 00:00 Tools | |
13089423 | Play | Improv 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
13089451 | Play | The Rediscovery of Big Bug Creek, Arizona | 00:00 Tools | |
13089386 | Play | On One Knee | 00:00 Tools | |
13089454 | Play | Happy Ending | 00:00 Tools | |
13089404 | Play | The Moment | 00:00 Tools | |
13089378 | Play | Remedios | 00:00 Tools | |
13089405 | Play | Innocent Moon | 00:00 Tools | |
13089419 | Play | Pacific II | 00:00 Tools | |
13089389 | Play | If You Look | 00:00 Tools | |
50348080 | Play | Believing in Miracles | 00:00 Tools | |
13089385 | Play | What The Buzzard Told Suzanne | 00:00 Tools | |
87086217 | Play | When the Moon Sings | 00:00 Tools | |
76930761 | Play | In a Region of Clouds | 00:00 Tools | |
13089424 | Play | Abide the Winter | 00:00 Tools | |
13089408 | Play | A Region of Clouds | 00:00 Tools | |
13089398 | Play | Passage | 00:00 Tools | |
13089444 | Play | River | 00:00 Tools | |
13089422 | Play | Bricklayer's Beautiful Daughter | 00:00 Tools | |
13089416 | Play | The Search for the Turtle's Navel | 00:00 Tools | |
13089375 | Play | The Pink Chiffon Tricycle Queen | 00:00 Tools | |
76930762 | Play | The Moment in Which You Must Finally Let Go of the Tether Which Has Held Your Hope Airborne | 00:00 Tools | |
13089388 | Play | Gazos | 00:00 Tools | |
13089441 | Play | Somewhere In All This Green | 00:00 Tools | |
87086219 | Play | Up There Throughout The Skies | 00:00 Tools | |
87086218 | Play | In This Still Forest | 00:00 Tools | |
13089402 | Play | Illumina | 00:00 Tools | |
13089391 | Play | Dance For The Death Of A Bird | 00:00 Tools | |
13089415 | Play | Lago De Montañas (Mountain Lake) | 00:00 Tools | |
13089399 | Play | Threes | 00:00 Tools | |
13089430 | Play | Beneath The Tree | 00:00 Tools | |
13089613 | Play | I Wonder as I Wander | 00:00 Tools | |
76930767 | Play | What Strangers Are These | 06:28 Tools | |
13089432 | Play | As Stars Fell | 00:00 Tools | |
13089396 | Play | Windham Mary | 00:00 Tools | |
13089418 | Play | Wondering Again What's Behind the Eyes | 00:00 Tools | |
87086220 | Play | In The Valley Of Moses | 00:00 Tools | |
13089411 | Play | Synopsis | 00:00 Tools | |
76930766 | Play | West of Shoshone | 00:00 Tools | |
13089457 | Play | The Green Trees Of Winter | 00:00 Tools | |
87086221 | Play | A Movie of a Placid Lake on a Moonless Night in September | 00:00 Tools | |
13089450 | Play | Bahia, Nebraska | 00:00 Tools | |
13089447 | Play | Rain to River | 06:28 Tools | |
87086222 | Play | The Inexorable Drift of Tectonic Plates | 06:28 Tools | |
13089513 | Play | The Gathering | 00:00 Tools | |
13089508 | Play | For John Hannah Though I've Never Met Him | 00:00 Tools | |
13089420 | Play | Garden | 04:21 Tools | |
50348086 | Play | The Impending Death of the Virgin Spirt | 00:00 Tools | |
13089409 | Play | The Second Great Tortion Bar Overland Of West Townshend, Vermont, Jose Pepsi Attending | 02:34 Tools | |
13089421 | Play | Darrow's Barn | 00:00 Tools | |
13089433 | Play | Synopsis II | 00:00 Tools | |
13089410 | Play | Pacific | 00:00 Tools | |
13089453 | Play | Fear Not Mary | 00:00 Tools | |
13089552 | Play | Yazala Abambuti | 00:00 Tools | |
13089499 | Play | From "the Song of Songs" | 00:00 Tools | |
13089459 | Play | Pontchartrain | 00:00 Tools | |
50348084 | Play | Hawk Circle (Radio Edit) | 00:00 Tools | |
13089417 | Play | The Wall and the Wind | 00:00 Tools | |
50348087 | Play | The River Is Wide/Shanandoah | 00:00 Tools | |
13089480 | Play | A Tribute to the Philosophy of James Estell Bradley | 00:00 Tools | |
13089434 | Play | Childhood and Memory | 00:00 Tools | |
13089438 | Play | The Townsend Shuffle | 00:00 Tools | |
13089543 | Play | Just Dancin' Like Fools | 00:00 Tools | |
13089449 | Play | The Velvet Gentleman | 00:00 Tools | |
13089490 | Play | The Waves In November | 04:26 Tools | |
13089487 | Play | The Wheel | 00:00 Tools | |
13089462 | Play | Improv | 00:00 Tools | |
13089446 | Play | Sunday Rain | 00:00 Tools | |
13089553 | Play | Goodness Who Knows | 00:00 Tools | |
13089461 | Play | Three Hesitant Themes | 00:00 Tools | |
13089488 | Play | Ponchatrain | 00:00 Tools | |
13089443 | Play | Bodie | 00:00 Tools | |
13089528 | Play | If You Look (Version II) | 00:00 Tools | |
13089455 | Play | Tribute to the Philosophy of James Estell Bradley | 00:00 Tools | |
13089575 | Play | A Movie Of A Placid Lake On A Moonless Night In September - Reprise | 00:00 Tools | |
13089510 | Play | Castle Hill | 04:49 Tools | |
50348090 | Play | Before We Left All This Behind | 00:00 Tools | |
13089445 | Play | the Moment (Reprise) | 00:00 Tools | |
50348118 | Play | The River Is Wide / Shanandoah | 00:00 Tools | |
13089486 | Play | Incondizionatamente | 00:00 Tools | |
50348089 | Play | Bricklayer's Beautiful Daughter - US | 00:00 Tools | |
50348093 | Play | Imagine | 00:00 Tools | |
13089474 | Play | The Moment-Reprise | 00:00 Tools | |
13089511 | Play | B4B | 00:00 Tools | |
13089497 | Play | The Prospect of Darrow's Barn and the Blossoms of an Apple Spring on ... | 00:00 Tools | |
50348088 | Play | Threes (1983) | 00:00 Tools | |
50348092 | Play | T Bone Called It Motown | 00:00 Tools | |
13089505 | Play | Sheila's Pictures | 00:00 Tools | |
50348091 | Play | Pacific 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
13089659 | Play | Omwoyo | 00:00 Tools | |
13089468 | Play | Mountain Lake | 00:00 Tools | |
13089484 | Play | If You Look - Version II | 00:00 Tools | |
13089458 | Play | Windman Mary | 00:00 Tools | |
50348094 | Play | Anne's Song - US | 00:00 Tools | |
50348096 | Play | The Impending Death Of The Virgin Spirit - US | 00:00 Tools | |
13089489 | Play | A Happy Home in Katmandu | 00:00 Tools | |
50348095 | Play | Last Day At the Beach - Will Ackerman | 00:00 Tools | |
13089485 | Play | Darrow's Barn - Version II | 00:00 Tools | |
13089504 | Play | Darrow's Barn [VersionII] | 00:00 Tools | |
13089475 | Play | Lago de montanas | 00:00 Tools | |
13089517 | Play | The Moment in Which You Must Finally Let Go of the Tether Which Has ... | 00:00 Tools | |
13089549 | Play | Rain Sequence | 00:00 Tools | |
13089492 | Play | In A Region Of Clouds (US) | 00:00 Tools | |
50348097 | Play | Pictures - US | 00:00 Tools | |
50348098 | Play | Hawk Circle - US | 00:00 Tools | |
13089565 | Play | Anne's Song (US) | 00:00 Tools | |
13089545 | Play | Year's End | 00:00 Tools | |
13089524 | Play | Darrow's Barn-VersionII | 00:00 Tools | |
50348099 | Play | Barbara's Song - US | 00:00 Tools | |
50348100 | Play | Visiting - US | 00:00 Tools | |
13089527 | Play | Santos and the Well Traveled Bear | 00:00 Tools | |
50348101 | Play | Processional - US | 00:00 Tools | |
13089482 | Play | Garden [1979] | 00:00 Tools | |
13089483 | Play | Rain to River [1975] | 00:00 Tools | |
13089491 | Play | Babara's Song | 03:36 Tools | |
50348102 | Play | In A Region Of Clouds - US | 04:46 Tools | |
13089472 | Play | Believing In Micacles | 00:00 Tools | |
13089514 | Play | Night Slip [1982] | 00:00 Tools | |
50348104 | Play | Unconditional - US | 00:00 Tools | |
50348103 | Play | Last Day At The Beach - US | 00:00 Tools | |
13089471 | Play | Up There Throughout True Skies | 00:00 Tools | |
50348105 | Play | Hawk Circle - Radio Edit | 00:00 Tools | |
13089557 | Play | Beneath The Trees | 00:00 Tools | |
13089501 | Play | Garden - Will Ackerman, Atkinson, Dawn | 00:00 Tools | |
87086223 | Play | Darrow's Barn (Version II) | 00:00 Tools | |
13089577 | Play | Visiting (US) | 00:00 Tools | |
13089502 | Play | Pacific II [1980] | 00:00 Tools | |
13089507 | Play | Synopsis [1983] | 00:00 Tools | |
13089544 | Play | The Rediscovery of Big Bug Creek Arizona | 00:00 Tools | |
13089573 | Play | The Last Day at the Beach - Will Ackerman, Friesen, Eugene | 00:00 Tools | |
13089531 | Play | The Impending Death Of The Virgin Spirit (US) | 00:00 Tools | |
13089688 | Play | Unconditional (US) | 00:00 Tools | |
13089532 | Play | Processional (US) | 00:00 Tools | |
13089560 | Play | Pictures (US) | 00:00 Tools | |
13089500 | Play | Ventana [1983] | 00:00 Tools | |
13089683 | Play | Hawk Circle (US) | 00:00 Tools | |
13089534 | Play | Synopsis II [1983] | 00:00 Tools | |
87086225 | Play | T-Bone Called It Motown | 00:00 Tools | |
13089515 | Play | A Movie of a Placid Lake on a Moonless Night in September-Reprise | 00:00 Tools | |
89149446 | Play | Zuzu’s Petals | 00:00 Tools | |
50348110 | Play | Ina Region Of Clouds | 00:00 Tools | |
13089521 | Play | A Movie Of A Placid Lake | 00:00 Tools | |
13089540 | Play | Movie of a Placid Lake on a Moonless Night in September (Reprise) | 00:00 Tools | |
13089570 | Play | A Movie of a Placid Lake on a Moonless Night in September (Reprise) | 00:00 Tools | |
13089647 | Play | Improvisation 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
13089666 | Play | Last Day At The Beach (US) | 00:00 Tools | |
13089542 | Play | Darrow's Barn [Version II] | 00:00 Tools | |
13089567 | Play | Inexorable Drift of Tectonic Plates | 00:00 Tools | |
50348107 | Play | Hawk Cricle | 00:00 Tools | |
13089589 | Play | Barbara's Song (US) | 00:00 Tools | |
13089541 | Play | A Movie Of A Placid Lake (Reprise) | 00:00 Tools | |
50348108 | Play | Is This Still Forest | 00:00 Tools | |
87086227 | Play | The Bricklayer's Beautiful Daughter (1977) | 03:58 Tools | |
87086224 | Play | The Moment in Which You Must Finally Let Go | 00:00 Tools | |
87086229 | Play | The Impending Death Of The Virgin Spirit (1977) | 00:00 Tools | |
50348113 | Play | B 4 B | 00:00 Tools | |
13089533 | Play | The Waves In November, William Ackerman | 00:00 Tools | |
50348111 | Play | Bricklayers Beautiful Daughter (original) | 00:00 Tools | |
50348115 | Play | O Come, O Come Emmanuel | 00:00 Tools | |
13089597 | Play | Castle Hill, William Ackerman | 00:00 Tools | |
13089568 | Play | From 'The Song Of Songs' | 00:00 Tools | |
50348112 | Play | Yazala Abambuti [w/David Cullen, Philip Aaberg, and Will Ackerman] | 00:00 Tools | |
13089494 | Play | Darrow's Barn-Version II | 00:00 Tools | |
13089530 | Play | The moment in which you must finally let go off the tether which has held your hope airborne | 00:00 Tools | |
13089478 | Play | Le Tombeau de Couperin: Processional | 00:00 Tools | |
50348117 | Play | The Wheel, William Ackerman | 00:00 Tools | |
50348114 | Play | The Moment In Which You Must Finally Let Go Of The Tether Which Has Held Your H | 00:00 Tools | |
13089546 | Play | The Impending Death Of Virgin Spirit | 00:00 Tools | |
13089551 | Play | the Prospect of Darrow's Barn And the Blossoms of An Apple Spring on Imagin | 00:00 Tools | |
13089537 | Play | The Bricklayer's Beautiful Daughter '81 | 00:00 Tools | |
50348116 | Play | The River Is Wide/ Shanandoah, William Ackerman | 00:00 Tools | |
87086226 | Play | the Moment in Which You Must Finally Let Got of the Tether Which Has Held Y | 00:00 Tools | |
13089566 | Play | Pacific II [(1980)] | 00:00 Tools | |
13089520 | Play | A Bricklayers Beautiful Daughter | 00:00 Tools | |
50348122 | Play | Slow Motion Roast Beef Restaur | 00:00 Tools | |
50348119 | Play | Pictures [US] | 00:00 Tools | |
50348125 | Play | Bricklayers Beautiful Daughter | 00:00 Tools | |
50348123 | Play | Contemplating | 00:00 Tools | |
13089581 | Play | Threes (1983) (Will Ackerman) | 00:00 Tools | |
50348120 | Play | Fingertrack 094 | 00:00 Tools | |
13089538 | Play | Threes [(1983)] | 00:00 Tools | |
50348121 | Play | Light & Song | 00:00 Tools | |
13089586 | Play | Three Obervations Of The Ocean | 00:00 Tools | |
13089576 | Play | Second Great Tortion Bar Overland Of West Townsend, Vermont, Jose Pepsi Attending | 00:00 Tools | |
50348128 | Play | Pink Chiffon Tricycle Queen | 00:00 Tools | |
13089562 | Play | Rain Sequence [From the Townshend Shuffle] | 00:00 Tools | |
13089695 | Play | Brother A Teaches | 00:00 Tools | |
50348132 | Play | Search For Turtle's Navel | 00:00 Tools | |
13089618 | Play | For John Hannah Though I've Never Met Him, William Ackerman | 03:58 Tools | |
13089555 | Play | Rain Sequence {from the Townshend Shuffle} | 00:00 Tools | |
13089583 | Play | Wondering Again | 05:48 Tools | |
13089633 | Play | A Movie Of A Placid Lake On A Moonless Night | 00:00 Tools | |
13089498 | Play | The Incredible Drift of Tectonic Plates | 00:00 Tools | |
13089696 | Play | Three Observations of One Ocean '80 | 00:00 Tools | |
50348124 | Play | A Movie of a Placid Lake on a | 00:00 Tools | |
13089539 | Play | Three Observations of One Ocean [(1980)] | 00:00 Tools | |
50348131 | Play | Second Great Tortion Bar Overland of West Townshend, Vermont, Jose Peps | 00:00 Tools | |
50348126 | Play | Shelia's Pictures | 00:00 Tools | |
50348129 | Play | Santos and the Well-Traveled B | 00:00 Tools | |
13089561 | Play | Visiting (1982) | 00:00 Tools | |
50348127 | Play | T Bone Called It Motown, William Ackerman | 00:00 Tools | |
13089535 | Play | The Bricklayer’s Beautiful Daughter | 00:00 Tools | |
13089611 | Play | B4B, William Ackerman | 00:00 Tools | |
13089623 | Play | Barbara's Song [US] | 00:00 Tools | |
50348130 | Play | The Impending Death Of The Virgin Spirit [US] | 00:00 Tools | |
13089694 | Play | Visiting '82 | 00:00 Tools | |
13089690 | Play | Slow Motion Roast Beef Restaurant... | 00:00 Tools | |
13089569 | Play | Remedios - William Ackerman | 00:00 Tools | |
13089547 | Play | Ventana [(1983)] | 00:00 Tools | |
13089675 | Play | Anne`s Song | 00:00 Tools | |
13089649 | Play | Second Great Tortion Bar Overland.. | 00:00 Tools | |
50348146 | Play | Bricklayer's Beautiful Daughte | 00:00 Tools | |
13089591 | Play | Slow Motion Roast Beef Restaraunt Seduction | 00:00 Tools | |
50348133 | Play | Last Day At The Beach [US] | 00:00 Tools | |
13089556 | Play | Synopsis [(1983)] | 00:00 Tools | |
13089563 | Play | The Bricklayer`s Beautiful Daughter | 00:00 Tools | |
50348134 | Play | 11 - Yoga Zone - Music For Meditation - Various Artists - Threes (1983) (Will Ackerman) | 00:00 Tools | |
13089641 | Play | Unconditinal | 00:00 Tools | |
50348135 | Play | Anne's Song [US] | 00:00 Tools | |
50348136 | Play | Visiting [US] | 00:00 Tools | |
50348137 | Play | Processional [US] | 00:00 Tools | |
50348138 | Play | Unconditional [US] | 00:00 Tools | |
50348139 | Play | In A Region Of Clouds [US] | 00:00 Tools | |
50348147 | Play | The Shape Of The Land | 00:00 Tools | |
76930770 | Play | Fear Not, Mary | 00:00 Tools | |
13089614 | Play | The One | 00:00 Tools | |
50348140 | Play | The Impending Death Of The Vi | 00:00 Tools | |
13089662 | Play | My Generation | 00:00 Tools | |
50348141 | Play | The Pink Chiffon Tricycle Quee | 00:00 Tools | |
50348142 | Play | Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle) | 00:00 Tools | |
13089616 | Play | Hot Dog | 00:00 Tools | |
13089564 | Play | Synopsis II [(1983)] | 00:00 Tools | |
87086228 | Play | From The Song Of Songs | 00:00 Tools | |
13089638 | Play | Brother A Teacher | 00:00 Tools | |
50348144 | Play | Bricklayer's Beautiful Daughter [US] | 00:00 Tools | |
50348145 | Play | Hawk Circle [US] | 00:00 Tools | |
50348157 | Play | Visiing | 00:00 Tools | |
13089632 | Play | Slow Motion Roastbeef Restaurant Seducti | 00:00 Tools | |
50348148 | Play | Walk With Me, William Ackerman | 00:00 Tools | |
50348149 | Play | Yoga Zone - Music For Yoga Practice - 05) Will Ackerman - A Happy Home In Kathmandu | 00:00 Tools | |
50348150 | Play | Unleash the full potential of SKY.FM. Get SKY.FM Premium Now! | 00:00 Tools | |
50348151 | Play | Sound Of Wind | 00:00 Tools | |
50348152 | Play | My Way | 00:00 Tools | |
13089655 | Play | Take A Look Around | 00:00 Tools | |
50348153 | Play | The Prospect Of Darrow's Barn... | 00:00 Tools | |
50348154 | Play | Up There Througout The Skies | 00:00 Tools | |
50348155 | Play | The Prospect of Darrow's Barn | 00:00 Tools | |
50348163 | Play | Hawk Circle [Radio Edit] | 00:00 Tools | |
87086230 | Play | Bahia Nebraska | 00:00 Tools | |
13089604 | Play | It'll Be Ok | 00:00 Tools | |
50348156 | Play | Synopsis 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
13089652 | Play | The Second Great Tortion Bar | 00:00 Tools | |
50348158 | Play | Before We Lerft This All Behind | 00:00 Tools | |
50348159 | Play | The Moment in Which You Must F | 00:00 Tools | |
50348160 | Play | Eye Of The Needle | 00:00 Tools | |
89149447 | Play | Tribute to the Philosophy of J | 00:00 Tools | |
50348161 | Play | The Impending Death of the Virgin Sp | 00:00 Tools | |
50348162 | Play | Hawk Circle (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
76930771 | Play | Mr Jackson's Hat | 00:00 Tools | |
50348164 | Play | dancing in the wind | 00:00 Tools | |
87086231 | Play | The Townshend Shuffle '78 | 00:00 Tools | |
76930772 | Play | The River Is Wide - Shanandoah | 00:00 Tools | |
50348165 | Play | Intro | 00:00 Tools | |
13089689 | Play | The Bricklayer's Beautiful D.. | 00:00 Tools | |
50348167 | Play | Rollin' (Urban Assault Vehicle) | 00:00 Tools | |
50348168 | Play | Waiting For Winter | 00:00 Tools |
Will Ackerman is a guitarist and composer of acoustic-based instrumental music. He founded and ran for many years the influential new age record label Windham Hill Records.
Born in West Germany, he was adopted by a couple who lived in Palo Alto, California. A self-professed poet and musician who briefly studied guitar with Robbie Basho, Ackerman grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. After attending Stanford University, Ackerman dropped out to become a carpenter. Ackerman had composed some pieces of music for a performance of Romeo and Juliet at Stanford. In 1975, without having played a "paying gig" a group of friends and informal fans got together and collected about $300 in five dollar bills to send me into a recording studio. I picked a studio out of the phone book named Mantra Studios (it was the '70s after all!). I walked into that room and made a record I called 'The Search for the Turtle's Navel' in two afternoons. (William Ackerman, liner notes for 'Returning,' 2005).
Initially Ackerman kept up his job as a builder but recording music took up more of his time until he was working on music full-time. Ackerman ran his Windham Hill Records for years. He did just about everything from picking cover art to producing the records. Early albums featured himself ('It Takes a Year') and his cousin, fellow guitarist Alex de Grassi's 'Turning: Turning Back' (1978). Although in later years critics would single out Ackerman's records (especially Childhood and Memory) and De Grassi's first record, the album that gained Windham Hill Records notice was George Winston's 1980 recording 'Autumn'. This record was well reviewed in 'Rolling Stone' magazine and, as a result of this national exposure the record began selling in large numbers. For many years it was the best-selling album in the Windham Hill catalog.
Ackerman found that life as a record label executive was, in his own words, making him crazy. His marriage ended in divorce and he eventually moved out of the Bay Area and across the country to Windham County, Vermont. In 1992, he sold half of his stake in Windham Hill Records to BMG and stopped recording and producing. Life in Vermont away from the record business proved enjoyable and so Ackerman sold the remainder of his stake in Windham Hill Records in 1996.
Since that time he has released only a couple of albums: 'Sound of Wind Driven Rain' in 1998 and 'Hearing Voices' in 2001 (both were nominated for Grammy awards) and one album re-working some older songs - 'Returning' in 2004 (which won a Grammy).
In addition to discovering George Winston, Ackerman's other great discovery was Michael Hedges. Ackerman has often told the story of how he heard Hedges performing in a Palo Alto cafe and immediately wrote a recording contract for him on a paper napkin. Hedges and Ackerman performed concerts together for several years in the early 1980s and played together on one of Ackerman's albums. Other notable artists he produced include Liz Story and Shadowfax.
Guitar Tunings: Will Ackerman has said that none of his songs use the standard guitar tuning. He also says that only two songs share the same tuning (at least as of 2000). Ackerman's love of non-standard tunings (coupled with the use of a capo) allows him to play melodies where many of the notes can be played without fretting them, allowing the strings to "ring free". He shares his love of non-standard tunings with Michael Hedges and others.
Ackerman's musical influences include Erik Satie, John Fahey, Robbie Basho and Leo Kottke. Ackerman has told an anecdote about his musical debt to Fahey. One of his early pieces of music sounded a great deal like a Fahey composition and so he visited Fahey, asked him if he thought the music was too similar, and played him the tune. Fahey said "You can have it!". The tune in question may have been "The Rediscovery of Big Bug Creek, Arizona" (from 'It Takes a Year').
A low-key rumor, swirling just below the threshold of fact, has been circulating for years that Will Ackerman was the inspiration for Gary Trudeau's 'Doonesbury' Berkeley Breathed's 'Bloom County' character, Bill the Cat: Ackerman himself being a 'cool cat' with the name of Bill, and the generally mute literary cat prone to uttering "Ack!" Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.