Will Ackerman is what I found upon returning to college in California in the fall of 1980 after a year away on the East Coast. I recall the exact occasion of my introduction, a weekend day away from campus with my new roomies in one of the alternative coops on campus. We were in and around a little cabin next to a forest stream, the sun beaming in through the tree cover to bring the leaf-covered clearing to glowing half light. The Bricklayer’s Beautiful Daughter was the 1st magic I heard…

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@dakotarose06 They hit the wrong button.

Thank you so much for share this song!!!

This song is such a compliment to my Mother, who was a “Brick Layers Daughter” We play it everytime we go to visit her grave and share a memory or two. Thank you so much for such a fine piece of musical masterpice.
Tahosa

good song. cheese-ball guitarist.

good song. cheese-ball guitarist.

BEAUTIFUL ))

Splendid…see you in 2 weeks!

This guy should be doing Old Spice commercials.

So Glossy…

Just Waiting for the Hot Chicks to come running down the field…..

Nice Song…

There are at least two totally demented f@ckers in the world!!

Will Ackerman is a legend. He is a huge inspiration for my acoustic playing.

@moh2o Thanx!!! Ackerman & Hedges are THE REASON I play acoustic guitar. Hope you like MY version on Will’s tune, “IMPENDING DEATH…” I play with Michael Manring. Check it out!

THANX!

This is the first piece of guitar music that I heard that got me into listening to ‘American fingerstyle Guitar’ , then it was , Hedges, Kottke, now Mckee, Ross, Dufour, ect. But this was the piece that started it all. It still has a profound effect on my mind and heart.

The emotion he plays with makes the music so much more beautiful .

@no12blame, Acting!

When I was in college, attending North Dakota State University – Bottineau and Institute of Forestry, I had a couple of his tapes, and would play them while I studied learning all the genus and species names.tons of them! Totally mind blowing all the stuff I had to memorize, listening to William, totally got me focused! For someone who graduated with a “D” average…I made the Dean’s list my second quarter. My parents were blown away! It was “who are you, and what have you done with our son?

@zmanofwar3 It’s gotta be the devil and his wife…

He’s my favorite guitarist (:

Really beautiful.

Simply beautiful!

How many moments this has carried my spirit over the years since I first heard it, and now in the field with Hospice Chaplaincy, it carries other spirits over, into, and beyond ~ Thank you William Ackerman ~

@zmanofwar3 —- Most people I know today do not have the patience to listen beyond the first few notes before judging it……..I don’t give a @@@ what anyone else says, this is good stuff….

I was just looking through a box of old vinyl albums and found ‘Passage’ amounst a few other ‘Windham Hill’ albums. Sadly I don’t have a working record deck at the moment having gone 85% to CD. The album predates my wedding and my wife had never heard it so I took a chance on Youtube. Thanks for uploading it dakotarose06. I can’t get any where near playing it on the guitar. Thats why I now play Celtic mandolin, smaller neck, less of a stretch!

How much more beautiful than this can you get, God’s music and scenery! Not to mention the gift he gave to Will!