Rank Strangers

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The Rank Strangers Bluegrass Band
From left to right: Gary Forrester, Philomena Carroll, Peter Somerville, Andrew Hook
Background information
Origin	Melbourne, Australia
Genres	Bluegrass
Years active	1988–1992

Disambiguation note: This Australian group should not be confused with the Swedish group Rank Strangers, formed in the 1960s, nor groups who later adopted the same name, including a Minneapolis-based indie-rock group, a Rhode Island bluegrass band, and an Oregon acoustic group.

The Rank Strangers were an Australian bluegrass band that won multiple national and international awards during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Random House’s 1991 book Australian Country Music declared the Rank Strangers to be among the major figures of the 1990s Australian music scene, along with Keith Urban and country legend Slim Dusty. Australian Country Music observed that "the Rank Strangers have a musical immediacy that typifies the best of bluegrass and recalls such players as The Stanley Brothers and Bill Monroe."