Gregory Ackerman - Call Me Crazy (Polymoon) [Balearic]
- The Slow Music Movement
- Mar 21
- 1 min read
Information about Gregory Ackerman is thin on the ground, but this Los Angeles born, now Amsterdam residing, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and producer has developed a nice line in meandering, largely classic-sounding folk rock with an easy, blue-eyed soulfulness to it over the last few years. It's hard not to like him, and your mum will probably get down too.
His latest single, "Call Me Crazy" sees him channeling his inner Bill Withers to go all gently funktified, Balearic yacht rock, and I've got to say this stylistic deviation suits him. Again, info is thin on the ground, but he seems to have called in the favours for this one, with a horn section and vocalists squeezed into the studio for a fuller, nicely grooving, easy-breezy jam that sounds like summer has arrived early.
The drums are tight, the horns classic but evergreen - not tired; his guitar multi-tracking is funk-enabled, well detailed and on-point, and the flute lends a jazz-lite tickle with the vocals hitting the wide-bottomed trouser, seventies soul sweet spot. If you're taking a trip back in musical time, then you better come correct, and I'm happy to report that Ackerman has all the boxes ticked. Now, where's that sun?
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