Rainer and Das Combo: Life is Fine

His vocals always remind me of Mark Knopfler but the guitar work is far more jagged. Rainer Ptacek was an East German refugee who fled with his family in 1956, when he was five. He moved to Tucson, Arizona, in the Seventies and remained there until his death from a brain tumour in 1997. To learn more, visit https://rainermusic.org/