It wasn't long ago that Judy Bailey was known as the Mother of the Nation. It would be easy to bestow Dave Dobbyn with the equivalent title, Father of the Nation. However I reckon it would be more appropriate to dub him a National Treasure and leave it at
Music Review: Dave Dobbyn, Harmony House
By Tony Nielsen
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If anything, Dobbyn's maturity as a fifty-something songwriter and performer, along with his collaboration with Buda and Scott, is the trick to making Harmony House a must-listen album. There have been some great albums already in 2016 and Harmony House is up there with the best of them.
Rating 5/5 stars.