Ranky Tanky Release Five New Songs From Upcoming Album Good Time (July 12 / Resilience Music Alliance) As Beat Em Down EP

Ranky Tanky have shared five brand-new tracks from their upcoming sophomore album Good Time, out July 12 through Resilience Music Alliance. The Charleston, SC five-piece teased the release earlier this week when they shared the song “Beat Em Down” via Oxford American, in conjunction with the publication announcing a South Carolina Music Issue for later this year. The Beat Em Down EP features a fresh batch of material representing the musical heritage of coastal Carolina’s Gullah community, fusing West African influences with the traditions of the American South to create a truly singular blend of “soulful honey to the ears” (NPR). 

Listen to Beat Em Down here: https://ffm.to/beatemdown

Pre-Order Good Time here: https://ffm.to/_goodtime               

Since releasing their debut album in 2017, Ranky Tanky have quickly become global ambassadors for Gullah music and the community surrounding it. The five longtime friends have brought their work to the top of the Billboard charts, classified as Jazz while simultaneously being hailed as "overlooked Americana" by NPR. Ranky Tanky have also spread their message in a Fresh Air interview with vocal fan Terry Gross, and through a show-stopping performance on the TODAY Show. In a recent profile, Garden & Gun noted, “to listen to Ranky Tanky is to be taken to church, yes, but it is also to be reminded of your secular humanity.” 

Earlier this month, Ranky Tanky (which is a Gullah phrase for “get funky”) shared the first five songs from Good Time as the Stand By Me EP, which included the powerful original “Freedom.” Watch them perform that song on the TODAY Show here: https://bit.ly/2NhkwOI

Ranky Tanky will tour North America and Europe this summer, including a July 14 performance at Central Park Summerstage in NYC. See below for a full list of dates.

BEAT EM DOWN TRACKLIST

Shoo Lie Loo

Beat Em Down

Old Bill

Pay Me My Money Down

Green Sally

GOOD TIME TRACKLIST

Stand By Me

Freedom

All For You

Let Me Be

Sometime

Good Time

Beat Em Down

Green Sally

Old Bill

Pay Me My Money Down

Worried Now

Shoo Lie Loo

RANKY TANKY TOUR DATES

July 3 – CaixaForum Barcelona – Barcelona, Spain

July 4 – CaixaForum Zaragoza – Zaragoza, Spain

July 5 – Copenhagen Jazz Festival – Kobenhavn, Denmark

July 6 – Wassermusik 2019 – Berlin, Germany

July 7 – Rudolstadt Festival – Rudolstadt Festival

July 11 – CaixaForum Madrid – Madrid, Spain

July 12 – North Sea Jazz Festival – Rotterdam, Netherlands

July 14 – Central Park SummerStage – New York, NY

July 17 – Dartmouth Green – Hanover, NH

July 20 – Ventura Music Festival – Ventura, CA

July 21 – Musical Instrument Museum – Phoenix, AZ

July 23 – Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley – Seattle, WA

July 24 – Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley – Seattle, WA

July 27 – Calgary Folk Music Festival – Calgary, Canada

Sep 13 – The Tarkington at the Center for the Performing Arts – Carmel, IN

Sep 21 – Door Community Auditorium – Fish Creek, WI

Jan 23 – Newman Center for the Performing Arts – Denver, CO

Jan 25 – Soka Performing Arts Center – Aliso Viejo, CA

Mar 12 – Gaillard Center w. Charleston Symphony Orchestra – Charleston, SC

April 16 – Oxford American Archetypes & Troubadours Series – Little Rock, AR

April 17 – Germantown Performing Arts Center – Germantown, TN