Irish singer / songwriter Luka Bloom (real name Barry Moore) doesn't like looking back nostalgically. But, as he writes in the Dreams In America press release, sometimes you have to. More than twenty years ago, Moore went to New York because he was hopelessly stuck musically in Ireland. In the Big Apple he took the name Luka Bloom and started performing frequently in bars and cafes. Slowly his fame
… began to take shape there. Ironically, this American Dream eventually took him back to Ireland and the European mainland, where his music has attracted the most audiences in recent years. Dreams In America is an ode to the time in America and contains completely new versions of songs from his rich oeuvre. The album can be seen as a kind of best-of in disguise, although Dreams In America is significantly more interesting than that.more
