My Songs & Stories

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Big Love

Big Love

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Kurt Ackermann
Oct 02, 2022
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I grew up in a little village and there’s a song by the band Little Village (John Hiatt, Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe, Jim Keltner) that stuck in my head since I heard their first and only album back in 1992. The song is pretty simple but that’s exactly what makes it so hard to perform. Three chords is all it takes.

This morning I grabbed my acoustic guitar and …

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