Howard Ashby Kranz (nonfiction)
Howard Ashby Kranz is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
Songs
Everybody's Moon is widely viewed as his signature song.
Praise
I have variously said:
Howard and I are friends and fellow musicians of thirty-some years [circa August 2019], and time has leveled the differences between us. But when I came knocking at his door in 1981, hesitantly asking "Is this the house concert ...?", the differences were formidable: ten years difference in age between us, combined with me being an introvert neophyte singer-songwriter and Howard being a seasoned veteran who gave house concerts ... I didn't even know there was such a thing as a house concert until a mutual friend suggested I go to his upcoming house concert.
And:
Howard Kranz is the greatest singer-songwriter you've never heard, unless you've heard him, in which case form your own opinion.
In the News
Happy Birthday image mashup tribute by Karl Jones in celebration of my dear friend Howard.
"Met a nice young musician today, Howard Ashby Kranz. His song Uncertainty was both amusing and scientifically sound. He made a jest about how if James Dean were alive today, he (Dean, not Kranz) would be a right-winger. Later on I rang up one of the sisters who knows a Dean who lived into Kranz's time, and that sister? She says that Dean is a right-winger." (Excerpt from the Diary of Alice Beta (May 8, 1997).)
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
- "Living in the Cracks (nonfiction)" - song by Lorenzo Lattanzi, which I first heard it performed by Howard in July 2019.
- List of songs by Howard Ashby Kranz (nonfiction)
- Turn up the delicate (nonfiction) - witticism by Howard Kranz
External links:
- Home page @ howardkranz.com