RIP Kenny Rankin

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 9 Jun 2009 2:06 am

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/ ... 7669.story

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 9 Jun 2009 4:02 am

This is sad news.

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 9 Jun 2009 7:42 am

Yeah. Kenny deserved a much higher profile for his swinging vocals and great songwriting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx2tcDivhhk

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 13 Jun 2009 7:47 am

Very, very sad news. A buddy of mine and I used to have fun working up his songs, back in the 1970's. I've always loved his style.

Lee

Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 13 Jun 2009 8:21 am

Quite coincidentally, last week some Dylan came up on my mp3 player and I was listening to the second guitar on some Bringing It All Back Home songs---I hadn't listened closely in many years, if at all--and wondering who it was. I looked it up and it was Rankin. I think? A lot of playing throughout, tasteful and almost invisible unless you were to take it out and then you'd notice how much it contributes. Songs like Baby Blue, Tambourine Man.
Can anyone verify for me that it was indeed him doing the fills and ornamentation?

The next day I was reading his obit.

edit------my apologies---I just read the linked obit and it does mention this record.

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 7 Oct 2012 10:37 am

I knew he had steel in one of his songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yr3z6CDUlM

Dickie Whitley · Post by **Dickie Whitley** » 7 Oct 2012 1:11 pm

Well, in the article, either his birthday is wrong or his age is wrong. If he was born in 1940, then he should be 72 years old, else he was born in 1943 then the 69 is correct. Maybe this seems trivial but the least they could do was make sure it was correct out of respect for the man and his accomplishments.

My two cents...

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 8 Oct 2012 5:30 am

Dickey, it is a three year old article so I guess they were acurate. I didn't think that there was enough steel in the cut, otherwise I would have put it in Steel On The Web.

Dickie Whitley · Post by **Dickie Whitley** » 8 Oct 2012 5:31 am

I guess I need to pay more attention to when something was posted...geez....