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  NOTE: IF YOU WOULD LIKE FOR WILL TO AUTOGRAPH THIS CD PLEASE INDICATE YOUR REQUEST WHEN YOU CHECK OUT AND CLICK ON THE "INCLUDE A MESSAGE TO WILLIAM ACKERMAN".
  
  This album comes in a lovely Jewel Case with a booklet about each of the tracks, and words about the album from Will Ackerman.
  
  My father was a teacher. A professor, to be exact, at Stanford University. It had always been assumed by all concerned that I too, would be a teacher. Then in the spring of my senior year, all my words which had always come so easily stopped coming entirely. I mutely fled the cloister of academia and entered the physical and tangible world of carpentry. I apprenticed with a Norwegian boatbuilder turned housebuilder in the Sierra foothills of California and by 1973 I had started a building company called Windham Hill Builders.
  
  Guitar playing had always been with me since I learned to play a tennis racket to the Beatles. I've always loved it. Friends had urged me to make a record for years and I finally did so in 1975. What might have been just a minor blip in my life turned into Windham Hill Records and by 1979 my business card read, "Windham Hill Builders • Records • Music ( BMI )" And always there was the guitar and the music and I always loved it. Through all of what was to become of Windham Hill Records and all the excitement of hearing George Winston for the first time or encountering Michael Hedges, Shadowfax, or Liz Story, I found time to play the guitar late at night. And my own music never became a business; it was always a place of escape and discovery. I don't release as many records like some other people; I just do them when the music appears to me. When I look over the songs on this recording, I don't see a career: I see the nights and days in which the songs were written and the changes that were going on in my life and the lives around me. I see the people I was with and feel the love of music-making which is still such a wonderful mystery to me.
  
  ~ Will Ackerman
  
  Photo of a Meadow in Newfane by Kori Carothers
  Photo of Will Ackerman Playing Live by Irene Young - ireneyoungfoto.com
  
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