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

1 Giant Sand & Rainer Ptacek - The Inner Flame 5:35

2 Lucinda Williams - The Farm 5:36

3 Robert Plant & Jimmy Page - Rude World 3:48

4 Emmylou Harris - The Good Book 4:00

5 John Wesley Harding - Story Teller 4:18

6 Evan Dando - Rudy with a Flashlight 2:37

7 Victoria Williams & Mark Olson - Something's Gotta Be Done 3:41

8 Grandaddy - Junkpile 3:47

9 PJ Harvey, John Parish & Eric Drew Feldman - Losin' Ground 3:11

10 Chuck Prophet - Limit to It 4:15

11 Vic Chesnutt & Tina Chesnutt - Where's That at? 3:26

12 Madeleine Peyroux - Life Is Fine 3:12

13 Robert Plant & Rainer Ptacek - 21 Years 5:12

14 Chris Whitley - Powder Keg 5:25

15 Jonathan Richman - Broken Promises 4:14

16 Kris McKay - One Man Crusade 4:16

17 Howe Gelb - That's How Things Get Done 3:15

18 Joey Burns, John Convertino & Rainer Ptacek - Be Prepared 3:35

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