Collection is the first greatest hits album by Canadian folk music group The Rankin Family. It was released by EMI in 1996. The album peaked at number 1 on the RPM Country Albums chart.
Chart performance
References
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Category:The Rankin Family albums
Category:EMI Records compilation albums
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The Rankin Family is a Canadian musical family group from Mabou, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The group has won many Canadian music awards, including 15 East Coast Music Awards, six Juno Awards, four SOCAN Awards, three Canadian Country Music Awards and two Big Country Music Awards.
Career
The Rankins come from a family of 12, all of whom would entertain the neighbours musically every third weekend as part of a ceilidh.
The first Rankin Family band formed in the 1970s when siblings Geraldine, Genevieve, David, John Morris, and Raylene Rankin began performing at local weddings and dances in Cape Breton. As the older siblings went away to college and university, the younger siblings Jimmy, Cookie and Heather took their places.Canadian Post, The Cape Breton Post, "Rankins Tour Postponed as Family Grieves", pg A2, Jan 13, 2007
These five siblings - Jimmy, John Morris, Cookie, Raylene and Heather - released their own independent cassettes The Rankin Family (1989) and Fare Thee Well Love (1990), featuring original songs and a combination of traditional jigs, reels and Celtic folk songs. Their television debut was on the CBC variety show On the Road Again in 1989.
EMI's re-release of Fare Thee Well Love in 1992, went quadruple platinum, selling over 500,000 copies; the title track was a Top 40 singles in Canada.
On September 17, 1999, after recording the song "Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor" with The Chieftains for their album Tears of Stone, the group issued a press release stating that they would no longer perform as a group in order to pursue independent interests and careers.
Less than a year later, John Morris Rankin was killed in a car accident in Cape Breton on January 16, 2000.CBC.ca http
Jimmy Rankin has continued to write songs and has released three solo albums: Song Dog (2001), Handmade (2003), and Edge of Day (2007). Raylene Rankin has also released a solo album, Lambs in Spring (2004).
Members
* Jimmy Rankin – vocals , guitar
* Cookie Rankin – vocals
* Raylene Rankin – vocals
* Heather Rankin (1989- ) – vocals
Former members
* John Morris Rankin – (1989–2000) piano, fiddle
* Geraldine Rankin – One of the original founders of the group, Geraldine Coyne (Rankin) died January 10, 2007, the result of a brain aneurysm, at her home in Calgary. Geraldine had not performed with the group since prior to the first recordings being released.
Discography
;Studio albums
*1989: The Rankin Family
*1990: Fare Thee Well Love
*1993: North Country
*1995: Endless Seasons
*1998: Uprooted
*2007: Reunion
*2009: These Are the Moments
Notes
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Category:Canadian country music groups
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Category:People from Inverness County, Nova Scotia
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