David Ackles: Down River

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This lovely song comes from Ackles’s eponymous 1968 debut album and is acclaimed as his masterpiece. Phil Collins selected it as one of his Desert Island Discs, saying of Ackles: ‘He taught me that writing songs didn’t have to be moon/spoon/June. That you could write intelligently about more serious subjects.’

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