Ranky Tanky released their eponymous debut on Oct. 20th, 2017. By December of that year, the group had been been profiled on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross and their album soared to the #1 position ...

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Ranky Tanky just keeps one-upping themselves. At last night’s 62nd annual Grammy Awards, the Lowcountry Gullah band took home the Grammy for best Regional Roots Album for their 2019 LP Good Time.

Charleston Gullah music quintet Ranky Tanky, which loosely translates to "Get Funky!" or "Work It," just released its first self-titled album on Oct. 20, and the disc has made it to the top of the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Ranky Tanky includes (l-r) trumpet player Charlton Singleton, bass player Kevin Hamilton, singer ...

Ranky Tanky’s music celebrates the African American Gullah culture of America’s Southeast. Credit: Courtesy Photo / The Kurland Agency. Vocalist Lisa Fischer, a longtime backup singer for both Luther ...

Charleston Gullah group Ranky Tanky has been climbing all the music charts, reaching No. 4 on iTunes and in the top 10 on Amazon back in October right after their first full-length release. Now, ...

South Carolina band Ranky Tanky is on a mission to revive and celebrate Gullah music and culture, which originated among descendants of West African slaves in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. The ...

Gullah heritage is born out of the West African transatlantic slave trade, and its traditions are still rich in the Caribbean, throughout the coastal south, and especially in the islands of South ...

The up-and-coming band’s very name is an exhortation to “get funky.” That’s what Ranky Tanky means in the Gullah vernacular of the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina. And like this creole ...

How a centuries-old musical tradition inspired the Billboard-topping jazz hits of Ranky Tanky. We're sorry, but something went wrong while fetching your podcast feeds ...

You know more music from the Gullah culture than you think. And you like more Gullah music than you know. Ranky Tanky, the Grammy-winning South Carolina band celebrating Gullah culture, will prove ...