VA - The Inner Flame, A Tribute to Rainer Ptacek [2012]

RAINER PTACEK

VA - The Inner Flame, A Tribute to Rainer Ptacek [2012]

The Inner Flame is a wonderful collection of Rainer's songs, and features Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, Emmylou Harris, PJ Harvey, the supremely gifted Chuck Prophet, Lucinda Williams, Vic Chestnutt, Jonathan Richman and others. Fire Records is proud to reissue this compilation and pay tribute and celebrate Rainer Ptacek's legacy. Includes an amazing booklet with lyrics, some really wonderful photos, and liner notes from Howe Gelb. Essential, really. This is a really good tribute album. This is the 2012 reissued, 18 track version of this album released on Fire Records with some of the same tracks as this original album, with some changes and a variety of other Rainer Ptacek tracks added with more artists performing the songs.

This is absolutely the most cohesive tribute album ever assembled, no doubt a result of Rainer's playing on most of the tracks. Throughout the album, Ptacek's National Steel slides and plunks along so thick you can almost taste it, and it's delicious. Brought together by Robert Plant and Howe Gelb, the album's contributors all do a magnificent job of adding their own souls to Ptacek's deeply personal music. Rainer Ptacek passed away a few months after the album was released, and this only adds to the haunting aura of the music. The last line of his statement of thanks in the liner notes reads, "I AM STILL REMAINING", and thanks to this collection, he will always remain a part of the heart of anyone fortunate enough to hear his songs. (Amazon)

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Track list

01    Giant Sand & Rainer - The Inner Flame
02    Lucinda Williams - The Farm
03    Robert Plant & Jimmy Page - Rude World
04    Emmylou Harris - The Good Book
05    John Wesley Hariding - Story Teller
06    Evan Dando - Rudy With A Flashlight
07    Victoria Williams & Mark Olson - Something's Gotta Be Done
08    Grandaddy - Junkpile
09    PJ Harvey, John Parish & Eric Drew Feldman - Losin' Ground
10    Chuck Prophet - Limit To It
11    Vic Chesnutt & Tina Chesnutt - Where's That At
12    Madeleine Peyroux - Life Is Fine
13    Robert Plant & Rainer - 21 Years
14    Chris Whitley - Powder Keg
15    Jonathon Richman - Broken Promises
16    Kris McKay - One Man Crusade
17    Howe Gelb - That's How Things Get Done
18    Rainer & Calexico - Be Prepared

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