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The Bricklayer's Beautiful Daughter ( 1975 )

from Returning - Grammy™ Award Winning Album by William Ackerman

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This is probably the best song I ever wrote. Some songs you work on for months or even years. You have the verse structure, but the chorus eludes you...or you're missing the bridge that connects the sections gracefully. "Bricklayer's Beautiful Daughter" flowed out of my guitar sitting in my little 405 square foot house at 2133 Cornell Street in Palo Alto, CA on a spring day without pause or interruption. It simply appeared; born with all its hair and wearing an Armani suit... not a note was missing and there was no work whatsoever in its "composition". I will never understand, really, where these songs come from. I'm just grateful that they do appear from time to time. I named this for the same woman who inspired "The Pink Chiffon Tricycle Queen", by the way.
The song as I originally recorded it was done by a young man who was very nervous in the studio and was consequently high on adrenaline. I managed to play the notes in 1977, but the nuances and dynamics of the piece were unknown to me, in fact beyond me.
This version is exactly how I want the piece to sound and, hopefully, to be remembered.

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from Returning - Grammy™ Award Winning Album, released January 1, 2004

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William Ackerman Vermont

I recorded my first record for about $300 in 1975, creating Windham Hill Records in the process. I’ve produced George Winston and Michael Hedges among many others.

I’ve toured in the US, Europe and Japan. I have a Grammy Award and 21 Gold and Platinum Records as a producer in the US and overseas. My studio is in Windham County, Vermont. It’s been a lot of fun. Still is. ... more

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