Info req: Dave Rankin

Subject: Dave Rankin
From: GUEST,Brian Shepherd (guest)
Date: 14 Aug 14 - 05:47 AM

The sleeve note writer of the 1962 album "Tom Rush At The Unicorn" referred to Dave Rankin, the writer of the song Poor Man, as "The Woodie Guthrie Of The South"(their spelling, not mine). That's a big claim and yet only this one song by Rankin can I find. Surely there must be more? Is there anyone on here who can add anything to our knowledge of this man?

Subject: RE: Info req: Dave Rankin
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 14 Aug 14 - 08:52 PM

There are references to a DAVE RANKIN as author of
comments about YOUTUBE items.

Also a mentions here
http://www.folknow.com/fellowship/NLA-NFF-Fellowship.htm
http://www.celestialmonochord.org/2006/03/hollis_browns_s.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfFav-Yq6d0
www.daverankin.ca

have no idea if there is any connection to the POOR MAN author.
There is a MUDCAT thread about POOR MAN
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=55088#3567028

Best wishes, Thomas.

Subject: RE: Info req: Dave Rankin
From: Dennis the Elder
Date: 15 Aug 14 - 03:41 AM

There was a David Rankin in the Rankin Family in Canada, however this certainly is not in the South and also to young.
A David Rankin also has a CD "Threads in the Fabric" available on cdbaby Music Store, this is obviously the wrong Dave Rankin as he was born in Southern Ohio in 1952 a little young to write a song recorded in 1962.
I will continue my research