Dreams And Soft Guitars

Billed as making his “move from singer/songwriter to guitarist”, Austin Durack’s first album since 1996 houses several fine original songs – including one (‘My Sweet Dream’) that could easily be a new jazz standard in years to come; this writer’s advice to Durack would be to send it off to Dianne Reeves post-haste. Guest musicians and singers include clarinet player Paul Coe, Gearóid Ó Murchú and baby Molly Durack, who contributes an enchantingly babbled “closing statement” to the instrumental ‘Blues for a Timple’.