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“Tommy Sands recently showed me a new CD from Belfast born Jack McCracken. The album ‘Spinner’ is totally absorbing. He writes some mighty songs and stylistically it is miles away from the average British or Irish singer / songwriter material. In fact, you could not pigeon hole it – it’s just music, and damn fine music.” --- Geoff Harden, Belfast Telegraph. “...no landing, no ground, just an audience left spellbound, burning rubber, hauling ass on a tank of McCracken and a head full of verse.” --- ‘Gas Poet’, from Jennifer Martiniello's ‘The McCracken Suite’, Muse Magazine / Canberra Spring Poetry Festival. “I like Jack's love song 'For You'. When Jack is reciting, he does not sing the words, yet the sound is like music. I heard (a recording of) W.B. Yeats recite 'The Lake Isle of Inishfree' about The Strand in London and the music he made with the words was wonderful. Jack's reading reminds me of Yeats' reading.” --- An Fhuinneog Ghaelach Magazine (Melbourne), Translated from the gaeilge.