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    This is Will's Grammy Winning album Returning DigiPak with an awesome booklet filled with his stories about each song.

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This piece was written for the wedding of my friends Harry and Giovanna in Rome. Giovanna titled the song. The guitar is called a parlor guitar and it has a very unique sound which gives RETURNING, another texture to play with.
Years ago I was working on a piece with Michael Hedges and had flown out to his studio in Mendocino, CA. In a short break I as this little guitar in the corner of a back room and picked it up. Half the size of a regular guitar it also was strangely strung so that the highest string was where the G would normally be... very odd. I played it for a while and felt a quick affinity for the instrument and its unique sound. Michael saw all this and said something about how easily this came to me. Coming from Michael Hedges I was delighted with his saying so.
A few months elapsed and Michael visited my home in Windham County, Vermont for a few days. He and I played a bit of music, but mostly we walked the hills and talked. He left very early one morning to catch a plane back to California and I awoke a couple of hours later to find a small guitar case by my front door: a gift. I actually cry as I write this. I miss him and am grateful to have known him. I never play the instrument without thinking of him.

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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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