Media: Russ Rankin (Only Crime, Good Riddance): “Walk The Line”

Contributed by thomas7155. Posted by Justin on Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 2:29 PM (EDT)

Russ Rankin, vocalist for Only Crime and formerly Good Riddance, has announced a solo project. His first post song is a cover of Johnny Cash's "Walk The Line." According to the MySpace page, Rankin "is currently working on a brand new collection of his own songs which will be released as a solo project sometime in the near future."

You can find the track at his MySpace page.

Update: It looks like Russ has taken the track down. We'll let you know when it comes back.

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baseball (May 10, 2008)

I don't see the song..

telegraphrocks (May 10, 2008)

When you are ready, the song will see you.

Tom1022 (May 10, 2008)

haha. well im clearly not ready then.

thomas7155 (May 10, 2008)

Incredibly stoked on this. But it looks like he took the song off.

android (May 10, 2008)

yea, he took it off.bummer.looking forward to this...I really like his songwriting.

dual-a-corn (May 10, 2008)

Yet another punk rock frontman goes solo...
who's keeping count?

royalt (May 10, 2008)

Let's do a head count (not necessarily frontmen):

Russ Rankin
Jeff Ott
Jesse Michaels
Matt Pryor
Brooks Wackerman
Scott Hull
Joey Cape
Ben Weasel

Who else?

ChokingVictim (May 10, 2008)

tim barry, chuck ragan, obviously

fallingupwards84 (May 10, 2008)

Mike Herrera
Greg Graffin

android (May 10, 2008)

kevin seconds
tony sly
trevor keith
justin sane

cooltobeyou (May 10, 2008)

Chris McCaughan
Kepi Ghoulie

senornunchuck (May 10, 2008)

too many. why is this the fad? and all these guys are doing like solo acoustic stuff. why?

PretentiousLikePitchfork (May 10, 2008)

this isn't really a fad...i think if you look back in the history of rock music and all of its genres...most bands have members going solo. it's just the way it goes.

Cos (May 10, 2008)

Tim Armstrong
Joe Strummer
Ben Nichols

VictorIkpeba24 (May 12, 2008)

Dustin Kensrue
Aaron Scott' (Attica!Attica!)

Cos (May 10, 2008)

Zoli from Ignite

Incidently, I remember asking Trevor Keith during an interview "So, you know the world is waiting for the Trevor Keith Project"

MonsterLobster (May 11, 2008)

What about bands that went the other way, like Against Me!?

Alien (May 11, 2008)

Nikola Sarcevic

LooseKanonYankee (May 10, 2008)

Too bad I didnt get to hear it

Russ works at the apple store in Valley Fair mall
its totally crazy

MonsterLobster (May 11, 2008)

Does he ever grab the courtesy phone and scream, "I WANT TO SEE A GIANT MOTHERFUCKING CIRCLE PIT!"

And does the whole mall obey?

Alien (May 11, 2008)

do you just drop in and say hi all the time?

LooseKanonYankee (May 11, 2008)

I would, but he isnt the most social guy
I would love to sit down and have a huge conversation
about music/politics/everything else
but thats never gonna happen

fallingupwards84 (May 10, 2008)

this guy's shows will suck, it'll be Russ frowning the whole time

xshoutoutx (May 11, 2008)

i don't know how i feel about this undeniable trend of (as stated prior) "frontmen going solo." It was cool when chuck ragan, chris mccaughan (sundowner), joey cape...etc did it, because it genuinely felt sincere, and like they were trying to branch out into a genre that they had yet to dip their toes in that had clearly influenced them, but now with people like the fuckin lead singer from thrice trying this shit and mike hale from gunmoll (who were awesome for the record), it's just getting fucking desensitized. Russ Rankin is a man who has undoubtedly been a huge push foward for punk rock, but seriously a fucking cover of Cash's "walk the line?"..... doesn't get much more generic then that.