With Nashville duo Big & Rich, "Big Kenny" Alphin created a startling, everything-but-the-kitchen sink brand of pop-country music that took the charts by storm and became one of the aughts' most unexpected success stories. Though Alphin had...
With Nashville duo Big & Rich, "Big Kenny" Alphin created a startling, everything-but-the-kitchen sink brand of pop-country music that took the charts by storm and became one of the aughts' most unexpected success stories. Though Alphin had...
Long before Linda Ronstadt, Natalie Cole, and countless other pop, rock, and soul artists attempted to cover standards, Kenny Rankin did it and with excellent results. Enlisting the arranging talents of Don Costa (Frank Sinatra), Rankin cre...
On his first Little David release, Rankin almost hits full stride. His reworking of "Peaceful" brought the song, and ultimately Rankin, a wider audience. The album eschews some of the preciousness of previous efforts and has a more universa...
At the height of the singer/songwriter period,Rankin quietly became one of the key voices of the genre. Silver Morning ranks as one of the best and most representative albums of that time. Once again, Rankin does a fine job covering Gordon ...
Rankin waited four years to release this somewhat disappointing release. With heavyweights Don Costa and Arif Mardin producing, the album continues Rankin's exploration of the standard style employed on the successful previous Kenny Rankin ...
Perhaps his best album, Inside represents the peak of all the different skills Rankin brings to his music. Like Silver Morning, it includes some singular and inspired renditions of other artists' music. While John Sebastian's "She's a Lady"...
An ideal representation of the acoustic and ethereal side of the early, winsome singer/songwriter sound, this promising debut only hints at Rankin's traditional pop and world music vision. The Tin Pan Alley and ethnic roots of the music he ...
Personnel: Kenny Rogers (guitar); Larry Keith (guitar, background vocals); Jim Colvard, Dave Kirby, Kenny Rogers , Fred Carter, Fred Carter, Jr., T.C Engel, Jim Colvard, Jimmy Capps, Johnny Christopher, Randy Dorman, Reggie Young , Ricky Ha...