'I'm just a singer, and I can sing anything that touches my heart," was how the singer and songwriter Kenny Rankin saw himself. Rankin, who died in 2009 from complications related to lung cancer, aged 69, defied musical pigeonholing during a career that began in the late 1950s, and was amused that record shops did not know whether to file him under rock, folk or jazz.
Fellow musicians admired his talents. The saxophonist Stan Getz called him "a horn with a heartbeat", while Paul McCartney liked Rankin's version of the Beatles song Blackbird so much that he asked Rankin to sing it when McCartney and (posthumously) John Lennon were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987.
There are many of his recordings on YouTube if you like this one. I first discovered him back in 1972 when he opened for George Carlin at Seton Hall College. A year later he and I met in a small bar in Cape May, NJ called the Ugly Mug. We sat together, talked and drank for a good two hours. He and I managed to run into each other a couple more times, and the coolest thing was? He remembered my name every time. One of the mellowest, ncest, most talented dudes I've ever been lucky enough to get to know.
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