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Singer-Songwriter Kenny Rankin Dead of Lung Cancer
Kenny Rankin, a brilliant pop vocalist and highly regarded musician-songwriter whose stylings ranged from jazz to pop to the world music influences he picked up as a child in New York, has died of complications related to lung cancer, his record company announced Monday. He was 69. Rankin died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Mack Avenue ...
Kenny Rankin Dies at 69; Singer-Songwriter's Long Career Almost Defied Categorization
A well-regarded guitarist, he wrote the hit song 'Peaceful' for Helen Reddy and played in Bob Dylan's backup band on the influential 1965 album 'Bringing It All Back Home.' Kenny Rankin, a singer-songwriter and musician whose song “Peaceful" was a hit for Helen Reddy and who had popular covers himself of a pair of Beatles hits, ...
Kenny Rankin: From the Heart
by R.J. DeLuke
Kenny Rankin died of lung cancer on June 7th, 2009. This interview was conducted in July 2002. He sings with a fluid ease, whether it's a standard like “The Very Thought of You," the Beatles “Blackbird," a Latin-flavored “Berimbau," or his own “In the Name of Love." His soft voice caresses the most ...
Kenny Rankin Singer-Songwriter's Long Career Almost Defied Categorization Dies
A well-regarded guitarist, he wrote the hit song 'Peaceful' for Helen Reddy and played in Bob Dylan's backup band on the influential 1965 album 'Bringing It All Back Home.' Kenny Rankin, a singer-songwriter and musician whose song “Peaceful" was a hit for Helen Reddy and who had popular covers himself of a pair of Beatles hits, ...
A Song For You
By Kenny Rankin
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2002
Track listing: When the Sun Comes Out%; Where Do You Start^; `Round Midnight; She Was Too Good to Me*; Spanish Harlem^; Then I'll Be Tired of You^; The Way You Look Tonight; I've Just Seen a Face; Love Walked In%; A Song for You
Kenny Rankin: A Song for You
by Dave Nathan
Veteran vocalist Kenny Rankin, in my opinion, has been variously misclassified, misassigned in terms of where he belongs as a performer for far too long. The knee jerk reaction to his material, on record and in concert, is that he was more a soft rock singer than a singer/songwriter, with occasional performance references to entries from ...
Kenny Rankin: Here in My Heart
by Dave Hughes
It seems like every jazz artist (and even some pseudo-jazz artists) is destined to record at least one Brasilian music album during their career. Here's singer/songwriter Kenny Rankin's entry into this well-trodden field. Everything about this disc looks like it should be great. There's a remarkable cast of players from both Americas. From Brasil, we have ...
