Gregory Ackerman makes dog-walking, mini-golf a glorious act as he casually wanders his Los Angeles neighborhood in “Full Grown” video.

“Lush yet simple” (Glide Magazine) tune taken from sophomore album “Still Waiting Still,” produced by Pierre de Reeder of Rilo Kiley.
 
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Gregory Ackerman as photographed by Nell T Sherman
 
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Gregory Ackerman | “Full Grown”
 

 

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVkradiG_DY
 
[STREAM] | https://Fanatic.lnk.to/GregoryAckerman-FullGrown
 
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See the video for “Full Grown” by Gregory Ackerman at Glide Magazine, listen via Last Day Deaf, or click the links above!
 
“Carries a sense of nostalgia that is only amplified by Ackerman’s deep and hushed vocal harmonies and slowly strummed guitar. There is something strangely relatable and pleasing about this lush yet simple indie folk,” says Glide Magazine in its premiere coverage of “Full Grown” by Gregory Ackerman, the first single from his upcoming second album Still Waiting Still, out Sept. 17^th. Music discovery site Last Day Deaf calls the tune an “indie folk gem,” describing a “phenomenal wave of emotions full of lush harmonies and poignant lyrics.”
 
“The Arroyo Seco mini-golf course was a staple of me and my brother Eric’s childhood,” Ackerman says about the setting for the “Full Grown” video. We would go there as kids all the time, and eventually as teenagers as a space to escape our parents and get drunk. I thought it was a fitting setting to film some footage for a song about becoming ‘full grown,’ growing up physically but not yet mentally.
 
“I included walking our roommate’s dog, Rambis, because I’ve worked as a dog walker as one of my part time jobs for a couple years now, and that activity had really become a part of my routine. I also wanted to show off my neighborhood, Highland Park and the hustle and bustle of Figueroa Street with all its history and happenings, as well as my hometown, South Pasadena.
 
About the song, he explains, “I wrote ‘Full Grown’ when I was twenty-years-old back home on break from college, but for this record’s rendition, I had Gabriel Wheaton update it with a beautiful string arrangement, which brought about an amazingly thematic rendition of an old classic (to me.)
 
“I was literally feeling, as the lyric goes, ‘lost and lonely, but all my friends are home,’ feeling as though I was floating and struggling to find my place in life, yet all my friends were back home from school and we were all together again.”
 
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Gregory Ackerman
Still Waiting Still
Sept. 17^th, 2021
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Track Listing:
 
01. Intro
02. Think Straight (STREAM)
03. Full Grown (VIDEO | STREAM)
04. Peace of Mind
05. Good Song
06. Seasonal Living
07. Happy Phase
08. 2023
09. Mr. Moon
10. For Rob
11. Right Again
12. My Heart Goeth
13. All This Thinking
 
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Gregory Ackerman | About
 

“I used to feel like I was the only one that should have a say in my process,” says Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, Gregory Ackerman of his music. “I’ve since discovered that both life and music get better the more people you share them with.”
 
The latest work that Ackerman is sharing with the world is Still Waiting Still (out Sept. 17^th, 2021), the follow-up to 2019’s “Stresslove EP” (V2/Munich Records), and Ackerman’s first full-length since his debut album And Friends in 2018.
 
Still Waiting Still was produced by Pierre de Reeder of Rilo Kiley who adds touches of hypnotic mysticism on top of the California summer sunset melodies, which beautifully combine with Ackerman’s plainspoken philosophical lyrics and twisty, dexterous guitar to create what is now Ackerman’s signature sound.
 
The title of Still Waiting Still’s first single seems to reference the evolution in Ackerman’s thinking. “Full Grown,” originally a spare song written when he was only 20-years-old
(Ackerman is now 28), is given a full production makeover for inclusion on Still Waiting Still.
 
“For the rendition of ‘Full Grown’ on Still Waiting Still, I had violinist Gabriel Wheaton update it with a beautiful string arrangement. His contribution resulted in an amazingly thematic version of what I now consider to be an ‘old classic’ from my catalog.”
 
In addition to Wheaton, new friends that Ackerman has invited to participate in creating Still Waiting Still include other Los Angeles-area talents such as Grant Milliken, Eva B. Ross, Shelby Gogreve, and Theo and Mark Federonic.
 
“These are all great musicians that I met playing shows in Los Angeles,” Ackerman says. “This new personnel, combined with my trusty foundation (Ackerman’s brother Eric, close friend
Keenan McDaniel, and friend and producer, de Reeder), helped Still Waiting Still become a lively collection of brand-new material mixed with songs that I’d written years ago.”
 
Ackerman guesses that half of Still Waiting Still’s 13 songs were written while he was in college, shortly after he had begun to write and record in earnest. His posts of the results on
Soundcloud revealed that listeners liked what they heard, and Ackerman was later signed on an unsolicited demo to V2 –affiliated singer-songwriter offshoot, Munich Records.
 
“For this album I wanted my past self and current self to align again as one fluid artist. All of the songs on Still Waiting Still have an inherent grit or humor to them, and were written with a youthful ironic moodiness which I relate to once again as a 28-year-old.”
 
“I wanted to bring back the states of mind that I used to feel,” Ackerman continues, going on to reference the album’s second upcoming single, the aptly titled, “Good Song,” in which he sings about “dredging up feelings from the past,” while trying to write a song about writing songs.
 
“‘Good Song’ came out of my frustration in feeling the pressure to make ‘likeable’ music,” Ackerman confesses. “I was constantly feeling mostly self- imposed pressure to write a ‘hit song,’ and I remember being able to finally take a step back from that mindset and look at it humorously. Why not write a song about trying to write a good song?”
 
Still Waiting Still contains 13 of ‘em actually, and Ackerman is proud.
 
“It’s not perfect, just as nothing with a heartbeat ever is, but I hope that it represents some part of me that perhaps I could not express any other way.”
 
Still Waiting Still, the second album by Gregory Ackerman, arrives on Sept. 17th, 2021 preceded by the singles “Full Grown” (out now), “Good Song” (July 23rd), and “Mr. Moon” (Aug 20th). Gregory Ackerman is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
 
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