International
Songwriting Competition finalist’s new single out now featuring Fantastical Beings cover art by Italy’s
Anna Mond. Hear
“Cooler Heads” here.
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Gregory
Ackerman as photographed by Andrew
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About | “Cooler
Heads” by Gregory Ackerman &
Keenan McDaniel
The cover art for “Cooler
Heads” is the original
work “Ohhh Sole Mio” by Italian
artist Anna Mond and is part of her Fantastic Beings series.
“My friend and drummer, Keenan McDaniel, came to me with the foundation for a new song. He
had built a guitar-bass structure that needed some lyrics. I added a funky
little rhythm guitar part, as well as some power bends in the chorus. The mood
of the melody was light and airy, so I wrote lyrics about not taking life too
seriously (“‘Cause life keeps moving onward / There ain’t no sense in giving in)
and finding the beauty in the world (“And I’ll cherish everything / I think I
owe it to the world”). It's a love song to the world itself, with the chorus
lyrics exclaiming, ‘Oh what a world!’” – Gregory
Ackerman
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Gregory Ackerman | Live
06/20/2019: Los Angeles, CA @ The Hi-Hat
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Gregory Ackerman | In The Press
“Inspired thematically by the 24-hour news cycle and
structurally by Agatha Christie’s
landmark 1939 novel ‘And Then There Were None,’ “Ten Little Indians/And Then There Were None (State Of The Union)”
recounts troubling issues of the day — like “nine reasons not to handle a gun”
and “eight people dead in a bar” — over hypnotic guitar and eerie, increasingly
chaotic backing vocals.” – American
Songwriter
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Gregory Ackerman | About
Los Angeles area-based songwriter and
multi-instrumentalist, Gregory Ackerman
was recently named a Top 10 Finalist in the International Songwriting
Competition (out of nearly 20,000 submissions.) Ackerman’s song “Ten Little
Indians/And Then There Were None,” taken from his 2019 Munich Records (est. 1972 in the Netherlands and now a division of V2 Records) album And Friends, is the tune bestowed with the honor. Listen
to it via American Songwriter here.
With his 2018 music continuing to be noticed, Ackerman is now prepping new releases
for 2019. A new Ackerman tune “Cooler Heads,” written with long-time
friend and collaborator Keenan McDaniel,
is just out, and Birp! (birp.fm) will be including the Ackerman cut “Painkillers
& Steroids,” taken from Ackerman’s
late-2018 The
Demo Years compilation, as part of the vinyl series that is an
outgrowth of the popular music discovery website’s monthly playlists.
All of this activity leads into Ackerman’s next release for Munich
Records, an all-new four-song EP entitled “Stresslove,” set to arrive on October
4th, 2019, with its initial single “We’ve Got A Runner” out June
14th. As with And Friends, the “Stresslove” EP is once again produced
by Rilo Kiley’s Pierre de Reeder.
Gregory Ackerman is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
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Gregory Ackerman | Links
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion | Contact
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