Ranky Tanky Good Time [2 LP]Good Time by Ranky Tanky, from Charleston, SC, won the Best Regional Roots Album at the 62nd Grammy Awards (2020). Over the past three years, Gullah music, a centuries old sound from the South Carolina Lowcountry region, has entered the mainstream. That's largely thanks to Ranky Tanky, an effervescent quintet, who've become global ambassadors of Gullah music and culture. A1 Stand By Me A2 Freedom A3 All For You B1 Let Me Be B2 Sometime B3 Good Time C1

Tunes like "Girlfriend is Better" attack both the feet and the mind

and delivered the same thoughtful

and also how it is possible to reclaim joy from those experiences

and reminiscing about the '70s -- a decade he never saw

courtesy of OutKast and Erykah Badu arranger Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

On tracks such as the crystalline

after soldiering on through drug problems and interpersonal tensions

Korn's influences include Alice in Chains

Minding the Usher

on the console used in the making of Michael Jackson's Thriller might have contributed some good '80s karma as well)

Kim Deal (bass

Released: 2/26/21